Formal Semantics and Philosophical Logic

Beste Kamali: Approaching the Finer Components of Polar Question Meaning From a Crosslinguistic Perspective


Speaker: Beste Kamali
Title: Approaching the Finer Components of Polar Question Meaning From a Crosslinguistic Perspective
Date:
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Location: SP107 F1.15 (ILLC Seminar Room)

Using two case studies from Turkish and Bulgarian, I will introduce two unrelated and unexpected components of polar question meaning. The takeaway will be that polar question meaning includes a richness that not all languages show equally strong evidence for, but is nevertheless there.