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Beyond 'Any' and 'Ever' : New Explorations in Negative Polarity Sensitivity / ed. by Regine Eckardt, Manfred Sailer, Eva Csipak, Mingya Liu.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 262Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (370 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110303728
  • 9783110305234
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 415 23
LOC classification:
  • P299.N4 B49 2013
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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 -- Index
Summary: The grammar of negative polarity items is one of the challenges for 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 with its own merits and problems. The volume comprises state-of-the-art studies and suggests an interpolation approach to NPI licensing.
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Frontmatter -- 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 -- Index

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The grammar of negative polarity items is one of the challenges for 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 with its own merits and problems. The volume comprises state-of-the-art studies and suggests an interpolation approach to NPI licensing.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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