Polar response particles have been at the center of lively debates in the recent and not so recent literature. One of these debates concerns the syntax of these particles, in particular whether they are pure sentential proforms or involve ellipsis. This paper examines the syntax of the French polar response particles oui, non, and si in embedded contexts. On the basis of these particles' sensitivity to finiteness, obviation, and antilogophoricity in embedded clauses, it argues that they are better analyzed as remnants of ellipsis.

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Abstract. This paper gives a first description of the formation of constituent questions in the understudied Karata language (k̄irʟ̄i mac̄'i, Russian karatinskij jazyk). It argues that wh-questions in this language exhibit the characteristics predicted of type 4 languages by Cable 2010's theory.

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