I show that speaker bias in polarity focus questions (PFQs) is context sensitive, while
speaker bias in high negation questions (HNQs) is context insensitive. This leads me to …

In the past decades of research, questions have become a very prominent topic at the
semantics-pragmatics interface. Certainly, they are a natural and challenging topic for any …

Although the following polar question forms raise the same issue, the positive question Is
Jane coming?, the low negation question Is Jane not coming?, and the high negation …

Much of the recent work on epistemology of inquiry defends two related theses. First, inquiry
into a question rationally prohibits believing an answer to that question. Second, knowledge …

A puzzle arises when combining two individually plausible, yet jointly incompatible, norms of
inquiry. On the one hand, it seems that one should not inquire into a question while …

High negation questions—questions like “Isn't it nice out?”—necessarily convey that the
speaker is epistemically biased, ie, the speaker has a prior belief about the correct answer to …

The concept of bias is familiar to linguists primarily from the literature on questions.
Following the work of Giannakidou and Mari (Truth and Veridicality in Grammar and …

The semantics and pragmatics of polar questions remain undertheorized. Standard
proposition-set accounts (Hamblin, 1976; Groenendijk and Stokhof, 1984), which take …

We explore the contextual appropriateness conditions of yes-no questions in Russian,
focusing on negative questions with the particles razve and neuželi, in comparison to …

Polar questions and answers are commonly employed in everyday conversations. At first
glance, the structure appears straightforward: the speaker inquires whether or not 𝜑 is true …