[lingtalks] Monday: Donka Farkas (Linguistics Colloquium)

[Klinton Bicknell]

On Monday 20 October at 2pm, Donka Farkas (UCSC; http://people.ucsc.edu/~farkas/ 
  ) will give a colloquium in the UCSD Linguistics Department, in AP&M  
4301.

:: Abstract ::

Assertions, polar questions and polarity particles

Donka Farkas
UCSC

My aim is to account for the systematic partial overlap in reactions  
to assertions and polar questions.  The first part of the talk  
characterizes assertions and polar questions acts against a particular  
view of context structure that allows us to see what they have in  
common as well as what distinguishes them.  The second part builds on  
the first to provide an account of the distribution of three polarity  
particles in Romanian.

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