<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" class="">Dear All</span><br class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 19px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">I am a Master student at the department of linguistics at the Stockholm University. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">For my Magister thesis, I am investigating the different strategies languages all around the world employ to answer polarity questions (also know as yes-no questions). </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Although many reference grammars contain a section devoted to the structure of polarity questions, the strategy used to reply to such interrogatives are rarely discussed. This is the reason why I designed a translation questionnaire for the collection of the data of this study. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The questionnaire contains <b class="">11 items</b>. Experience has shown that the completion of the questionnaire takes participants between<b class=""> 15 minutes up to 1 hour</b> (depending on how thorough they are with their answers). </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">I am grateful to all language experts, who are willing to take some time to fill out the questionnaire for a language of their expertise. The questionnaire is attached to this e-mail in PDF format. The participants are free to either directly annotate the PDF, request a link to a Google document or to create a separate document file and send this to me in, preferably, PDF format as well. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Should you have any questions about the project, feel free to contact me. I am also open to suggestions concerning the questionnaire design or resources on this topic. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(18, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #555555" class="">My email address is <a href="mailto:elmo7609@student.su.se" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(18, 85, 204);" class="">elmo7609@student.su.se</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);" class=""> </span></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Needless to say I am very grateful for all your time and help!</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); min-height: 16px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Best regards,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Elena </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div></div></body></html>