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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787647703321

Titolo

Beyond 'Any' and 'Ever' : new explorations in negative polarity sensitivity / / edited by Regine Eckardt [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

3-11-030523-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Collana

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

Altri autori (Persone)

EckardtRegine

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Context (Linguistics)

Grammar, Comparative and general - Negatives

Polarity (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.