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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Dear Elena,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">You may or may not be aware that I've written a book about the syntax of yes-no questions and answers with, in part, a typological perspective: A. Holmberg.2016.
<i>The syntax of yes and no.</i> Oxford University Press. I have data there from 136 languages, some from the literature but more from the Syntactic Structures of the World's Languages (SSWL) database. If you look up the database you will see that I have posted
a set of questions there about answers to yes-no questions, which have been answered by experts of a range of languages, which is how the database works. There are answers there now from more languages than when I wrote the book.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Best wishes,</p>
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Prof. Anders Holmberg<br>
School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Elena Moser <elemoser@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 12 February 2018 15:23:33<br>
<b>To:</b> funknet@mailman.rice.edu; lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Lingtyp] Answers to polarity questions: a typological study</font>
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<span class="" style="">I am a Master student at the department of linguistics at the Stockholm University. </span></div>
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<span class="" style="">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>
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<span class="" style="">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>
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<span class="" style="">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>
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<span class="" style="">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>
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<span class="" style="">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>
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<span class="" style="color:#555555">My email address is <a href="mailto:elmo7609@student.su.se" class="">
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<span class="" style="">Needless to say I am very grateful for all your time and help!</span></div>
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<span class="" style="">Best regards,</span></div>
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<span class="" style="">Elena </span></div>
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