Gärtner and Gyuris (2017): On Delimiting the Space of Bias Profiles for Polar Interrogatives #
This file formalizes [GG17]'s space of bias profiles. Following [Sud13], a polar
interrogative clause type is biased evidentially (by compelling contextual evidence for p, against
p, or neither) and epistemically (by the speaker's expectation that p, that not p, or neither), and
separately for each of the three polar questions it can express, the positive question and the
negative questions with inside and outside negation ([Lad81]). A bias profile chooses a nonempty
set of the three values for each of the six cells, so there are 7⁶ = 117649 profiles
(card_profile). The paper's delimiting principles are predicates on profiles, and the sizes of the
spaces they leave are theorems: the principles that constrain cells separately count as products
over cells (card_cellwise), those relating a positive question to its negative counterparts count
as sums over the positive question's value (card_perDim, card_byReading), giving 46656 for
Convexity, 2744 for Narrow Epistemic Choice, 512 for Static Complementarity with Convexity, 729 and
4096 for the two versions of Polarity Match, 63504 for PPQ ≠ NPQ, and 33856 and 56536 for
distributive and collective Quantitative Markedness. Avoid Disagreement entails Convexity and
excludes Narrow Epistemic Choice (not_avoidDisagreement_of_narrowEpistemic), the paper's reason to
confine Polarity Match to the evidential dimension. Appendix A's five total profiles from
[Sud13] and [Gyu17] are checked against every principle (sample_staticComplementarity),
and the infelicity judgments of examples (1), (2), (8), and (9) follow from the profiles
(rows_felicity).
Implementation notes #
The paper's three questions are readings, Option Polarity: PPQ is none, IN-NPQ the inner
reading of a negative interrogative, double-checking ¬p (some .negative), and ON-NPQ the outer
reading, double-checking p (some .positive); the six cells and the seven choices are
enumerated types, so that every decision the kernel makes ranges over a literal list. The Hungarian
e-interrogative cannot express an inside-negation question, so it is a partial profile kept apart
from the five total ones; the paper's Czech and Romero comparisons belong to the later papers'
studies.
References #
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- GartnerGyuris2017.instDecidableEqChoice x✝ y✝ = if h : x✝.ctorIdx = y✝.ctorIdx then isTrue ⋯ else isFalse ⋯
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The states a choice admits.
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- GartnerGyuris2017.Choice.pos.toFinset = {1}
- GartnerGyuris2017.Choice.neg.toFinset = {-1}
- GartnerGyuris2017.Choice.neut.toFinset = {0}
- GartnerGyuris2017.Choice.posNeut.toFinset = {1, 0}
- GartnerGyuris2017.Choice.posNeg.toFinset = {1, -1}
- GartnerGyuris2017.Choice.negNeut.toFinset = {-1, 0}
- GartnerGyuris2017.Choice.all.toFinset = Finset.univ
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Five of the seven choices are the bias values of [Sud13]: [+positive], [+negative], [neutral], [−negative] and [−positive].
The dimension a bias is drawn from.
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- GartnerGyuris2017.instDecidableEqDimension x✝ y✝ = if h : x✝.ctorIdx = y✝.ctorIdx then isTrue ⋯ else isFalse ⋯
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- GartnerGyuris2017.instDecidableEqCell x✝ y✝ = if h : x✝.ctorIdx = y✝.ctorIdx then isTrue ⋯ else isFalse ⋯
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The reading of a cell.
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- GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.ppqEv.reading = none
- GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.ppqEp.reading = none
- GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.inEv.reading = some Polarity.negative
- GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.inEp.reading = some Polarity.negative
- GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.onEv.reading = some Polarity.positive
- GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.onEp.reading = some Polarity.positive
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The dimension of a cell.
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- GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.ppqEv.dim = GartnerGyuris2017.Dimension.evidential
- GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.inEv.dim = GartnerGyuris2017.Dimension.evidential
- GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.onEv.dim = GartnerGyuris2017.Dimension.evidential
- GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.ppqEp.dim = GartnerGyuris2017.Dimension.epistemic
- GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.inEp.dim = GartnerGyuris2017.Dimension.epistemic
- GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.onEp.dim = GartnerGyuris2017.Dimension.epistemic
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The cell of a reading in a dimension.
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- GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.of none GartnerGyuris2017.Dimension.evidential = GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.ppqEv
- GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.of none GartnerGyuris2017.Dimension.epistemic = GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.ppqEp
- GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.of (some Polarity.negative) GartnerGyuris2017.Dimension.evidential = GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.inEv
- GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.of (some Polarity.negative) GartnerGyuris2017.Dimension.epistemic = GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.inEp
- GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.of (some Polarity.positive) GartnerGyuris2017.Dimension.evidential = GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.onEv
- GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.of (some Polarity.positive) GartnerGyuris2017.Dimension.epistemic = GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.onEp
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A bias profile: a choice for each cell.
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Counting principles #
A principle that constrains each cell on its own.
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- GartnerGyuris2017.Cellwise A p = ∀ (c : GartnerGyuris2017.Cell), A c (p c)
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A profile by dimension.
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- GartnerGyuris2017.byDim p d q = p (GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.of q d)
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A reading's evidential and epistemic choices.
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A principle relating the positive question's value to each negative question's value factors through the positive question's value.
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A principle imposed within each dimension counts as the square of the per-dimension count.
The delimiting principles (section 2) #
Section 2.1, No Uniformity: not every cell makes the same choice.
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- GartnerGyuris2017.NoUniformity p = ¬∃ (x : GartnerGyuris2017.Choice), ∀ (c : GartnerGyuris2017.Cell), p c = x
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Section 2.2, PPQ ≠ NPQ: in each dimension, negation changes the bias.
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Section 2.3.1, distributive Quantitative Markedness (11a): in each dimension the positive question has at least as many options as each negative question.
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The number of bias options a reading has across both dimensions.
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- GartnerGyuris2017.size h = Finset.card h.1.toFinset + Finset.card h.2.toFinset
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Section 2.3.1, collective Quantitative Markedness (11b): across both dimensions the positive question has at least as many options as each negative question.
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Section 2.3.2, generalized Qualitative Markedness: the neutral value belongs to the positive question's cells and to no negative question's cell.
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Section 2.4, Avoid Disagreement: no negative value for a positive question, no positive value for a negative one.
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Section 2.4, Don't Rule Out Agreement: every positive-question cell admits the positive value and every negative-question cell the negative one.
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Section 2.5: a choice is convex when it does not skip the neutral value between the positive and the negative one, that is, when it is not {+, −}.
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Section 2.5, Convexity: every cell is convex.
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Section 2.6: the epistemic options the sample exhibits, {+} and {+, −, %}.
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Section 2.6, Narrow Epistemic Choice: every epistemic cell is {+} or {+, −, %}.
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Section 2.7, Static Complementarity: epistemic cells take the narrow options and evidential cells the remaining ones.
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Relations among the principles (section 3.1.2) #
Avoid Disagreement entails Convexity: a cell without one of the poles cannot be {+, −}.
Narrow Epistemic Choice gives every negative question the positive epistemic value, which Avoid Disagreement forbids; Polarity Match can only be meant evidentially.
Appendix A: the sample #
A profile from its six cells, in the order positive, inside-negation, outside-negation question, each evidential then epistemic.
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- GartnerGyuris2017.mk ppqEv ppqEp inEv inEp onEv onEp GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.ppqEv = ppqEv
- GartnerGyuris2017.mk ppqEv ppqEp inEv inEp onEv onEp GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.ppqEp = ppqEp
- GartnerGyuris2017.mk ppqEv ppqEp inEv inEp onEv onEp GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.inEv = inEv
- GartnerGyuris2017.mk ppqEv ppqEp inEv inEp onEv onEp GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.inEp = inEp
- GartnerGyuris2017.mk ppqEv ppqEp inEv inEp onEv onEp GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.onEv = onEv
- GartnerGyuris2017.mk ppqEv ppqEp inEv inEp onEv onEp GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.onEp = onEp
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[1] English V1-interrogative ([Sud13]).
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[2] Japanese ∅-interrogative ([Sud13]).
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[3] Japanese no-interrogative ([Sud13]).
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[4] Japanese desho-interrogative ([Sud13]).
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[5] Hungarian fall-rise interrogative ([Gyu17]).
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[6] Hungarian e-interrogative ([Gyu17]): it cannot express an inside-negation question, so its profile is partial.
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- GartnerGyuris2017.hungarianE GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.ppqEv = some GartnerGyuris2017.Choice.neut
- GartnerGyuris2017.hungarianE GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.ppqEp = some GartnerGyuris2017.Choice.all
- GartnerGyuris2017.hungarianE GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.inEv = none
- GartnerGyuris2017.hungarianE GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.inEp = none
- GartnerGyuris2017.hungarianE GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.onEv = some GartnerGyuris2017.Choice.neut
- GartnerGyuris2017.hungarianE GartnerGyuris2017.Cell.onEp = some GartnerGyuris2017.Choice.pos
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The five total profiles of the sample.
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The Hungarian fall-rise interrogative shares the English profile.
No Uniformity and collective Quantitative Markedness hold throughout the sample.
Distributive Quantitative Markedness fails for the Japanese ∅- and no-interrogatives, whose outside-negation questions have more evidential options than their positive questions.
PPQ ≠ NPQ fails within the sample for the Japanese ∅- and desho-interrogatives, whose inside-negation question shares a choice with the positive question, and the paper's own counterexample is the Hungarian e-interrogative, whose positive and outside-negation questions share the evidential anti-bias {%}.
Avoid Disagreement fails throughout the sample, while Don't Rule Out Agreement holds only for the desho-interrogative.
Convexity holds throughout the sample; Narrow Epistemic Choice fails only for the desho-interrogative, whose negative questions carry {−}.
Static Complementarity fails exactly for the Japanese no- and desho-interrogatives, the six violations of (26).
Examples (1), (2), (8), (9): infelicity from the profiles #
The clause types whose examples the paper judges.
- englishV1 : Construction
- hungarianE : Construction
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- GartnerGyuris2017.instDecidableEqConstruction x✝ y✝ = if h : x✝.ctorIdx = y✝.ctorIdx then isTrue ⋯ else isFalse ⋯
A clause type's choice for a cell.
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An example: the clause type, the question it expresses, and the bias value the scenario fixes in one dimension, with the judgment.
- construction : Construction
- reading : Option Polarity
- dimension : Dimension
- value : SignType
- judgment : Judgment
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The judged examples (1), (2a), (2b), (8), (9a), (9b).
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An example is felicitous exactly when the scenario's bias value is among the clause type's options for that cell: the judgments follow from the profiles.