Beyond 'any' and 'ever' : new explorations in negative polarity sensitivity /
The grammar of negative polarity items is one of the challengesfor linguistic theory. NPIs cross-cut all traditional categories in grammar and semantics, yet their distribution is by no means arbitrary. Theories of NPI licensing have been proposed in terms of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics - each...
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Series: | Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs TiLSM.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements; Beyond "any" and "ever"; Mapping the West Germanic any's; Polarity items in Strawsonian contexts
- A comparison; From æghwæðer to either: The distribution of a negative polarity item in historical perspective; Evaluability
- An Alternative Approach to Polarity Sensitivity; How to get even with desires and imperatives; On NPI Licensing in Possibility Conditionals; An analogy between a connected exceptive phrase and polarity items; The chance of being an NPI; The modal need VP gap (non)anomaly; Minimizers
- Towards pragmatic licensing.
- Revisiting the Licensing Problem through Understating NPIs: The Case of Japanese Anmari '(not) very/much'Really all that clear?; Polarity in Context; Subject index.
