Experimentally testing the interpretation of multiple sluicing and multiple questions in Hungarian

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20344175
AutoresEszter Ronai (0000-0003-1578-0938, Department of Linguistics , The University of Chicago , Chicago , IL , USA), Laura Stigliano (0000-0002-1280-8344, Department of Linguistics , The University of Chicago , Chicago , IL , USA)
Ano2022
Volume39
Fascículo3
Páginas401-423
Data de publicação2022-09-27
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Linguistic Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0167-6318 • E-ISSN: 1613-3676
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/tlr-2022-2092
OpenAlexW4284900102
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas19

Hungarian multiple sluicing has been claimed to only be allowed in contexts that set up a pair-list, but not a single-pair reading. This has been taken as evidence that multiple sluicing is derived from multiple wh-fronting questions, which only license pair-list, but not single-pair answers. Providing novel experimental evidence, we show that all three relevant constructions in Hungarian – multiple sluicing, single wh-fronting questions, and multiple wh-fronting questions – in fact pattern alike in their answerhood conditions: both pair-list and single-pair readings are allowed, with a modest preference for single-pair readings. Based on our results, we thus argue that answerhood conditions are not sufficient to determine the source of multiple sluicing

Linguistics · Preference · Statistics · Computer Science · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Topic Modeling