Abstract
In this squib, we will examine some aspects of fragment answers (FAs) and indicate three properties of the construction: (i) various clause types (or forces) are expressible in FAs; (ii) FAs are not allowed in embedded clauses; (iii) FAs are always interpreted on the non-polite, casual speech level. We will claim that properties (i) and (ii) can essentially be attributed to the properties associated with a null clause type morpheme, which we argue can occupy the root position only. We will also put forward that property (iii) may be due to a presence of a null speech level morpheme which is associated with the non-polite level as a default value.
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