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Beyond 'Any' and 'Ever' : new explorations in negative polarity sensitivity / edited by Regine Eckardt [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs.
- Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Context (Linguistics).
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Negatives.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Polarity (Linguistics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (376 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : De Gruyter, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 with its own merits and problems. The volume comprises state-of-the-art studies and suggests an interpolation approach to NPI licensing.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Beyond "any" and "ever" / Eckardt, Regine / Sailer, Manfred
- Mapping the West Germanic any's / Auwera, Johan van der / Van Alsenoy, Lauren
- Polarity items in Strawsonian contexts - A comparison / Hoeksema, Jack
- From æghwæðer to either: The distribution of a negative polarity item in historical perspective / Gast, Volker
- Evaluability - An alternative approach to polarity sensitivity / Brandtler, Johan
- How to get even with desires and imperatives / Crnič, Luka
- On NPI licensing in possibility conditionals / Hsieh, I-Ta Chris
- An analogy between a connected exceptive phrase and polarity items / Gajewski, Jon
- The chance of being an NPI / Herburger, Elena / Mauck, Simon
- The modal need VP gap (non)anomaly / Levine, Robert
- Minimizers - Towards pragmatic licensing / Eckardt, Regine / Csipak, Eva
- Revisiting the licensing problem through understating NPIs - The Case of Japanese anmari '(not) very/much' / Matsui, Ai
- Really all that clear? / Onea, Edgar / Sailer, Manfred
- Polarity in context / Liu, Mingya / Eckardt, Regine / Radó, Janina
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 22, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9783110305234
- 3110305232
- OCLC:
- 858762118
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