LEADER 04369nam 22004455 450 001 9910838178603321 005 20240912162532.0 010 $a3-11-075512-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110755121 035 $a(CKB)29270028600041 035 $a(DE-B1597)585517 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110755121 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31016833 035 $a(OCoLC)1414454911 035 $a(EXLCZ)9929270028600041 100 $a20231209h20232024 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aPolarity-Sensitive Expressions $eComparisons Between Japanese and Other Languages /$fed. by Hideki Kishimoto, Osamu Sawada, Ikumi Imani 210 1$aBerlin ;$aBoston :$cDe Gruyter Mouton,$d[2023] 210 4$d2024 215 $a1 online resource (XIV, 458 pages) 225 0 $aThe Mouton-NINJAL Library of Linguistics [MNLL] ,$x2626-9201 ;$v7 311 08$a9783110754995 327 $tFrontmatter --$tSeries preface --$tPreface --$tContents --$tContributors --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1 Empirical and theoretical issues of polarity-sensitive expressions --$tPart I: Syntax of negative polarity items --$tChapter 2 Negative polarity and clause structure in Japanese --$tChapter 3 Negation-sensitive elements outside the Neg-domain --$tPart II: Syntax/semantics of polarity-sensitive expressions --$tChapter 4 Degree quantification, minimum quantity predicates, and polarity in Japanese --$tChapter 5 Polarity sensitivity of existential sentences with numerals in Japanese --$tChapter 6 Polarity sensitivity and equative markers in Japanese and German --$tPart III: Positive polarity items --$tChapter 7 On the rescuing of positive polarity items in Japanese and English: A hybrid approach --$tChapter 8 Cross-linguistic variation in the scope of disjunction: Positive polarity, or anti-reconstruction? --$tPart IV: Discourse/pragmatic properties of polarity-sensitive items --$tChapter 9 The forms and meanings of negative polar interrogatives in English and Japanese: Epistemic bias, information structure, prosody, and further issues --$tChapter 10 The polarity sensitivity of reactive intensifiers in Japanese and English --$tChapter 11 On propositional anaphora: 'Referential' propositions and propositional proforms --$tChapter 12 Two types of attenuation strategies for polarity-sensitive items: The semantics of degree adverbs amari and sonnani in Japanese --$tPart V: Historical study of polarity-sensitive items --$tChapter 13 Scope ambiguity and the loss of NPI feature: Evidence from the history of Japanese scalar particle dani --$tIndex 330 $aPolarity (positive, negative) is one of the most fundamental concepts in the system of language and there are many expressions that are sensitive to polarity. For example, any in English and wh-mo in Japanese appear in negative contexts, but not in positive contexts. While previous studies have shown that polarity-sensitive expressions are a general phenomenon in languages, it has also become clear that there are variations in polarity-sensitive expressions. This volume explores the variations in polarity-sensitive expressions through comparisons between Japanese and other languages, such as English, German, Spanish, and Old Japanese, and examines the environments and contexts in which polarity-sensitive expressions occur, as well as the types of (cross-linguistic) variation allowed. The value of the present volume lies in its inclusion of research papers inquiring into various types of polarity-sensitive expressions, such as negative-, positive-, and discourse-sensitive polarity items as well as their variations. The research indicates new directions for the study of polarity-sensitive expressions in the fields of syntax, semantics, pragmatics, historical linguistics, corpus linguistics and psycholinguistics. 606 $aLanguage arts 615 0$aLanguage arts. 702 $aImani$b Ikumi$f1956-$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aKishimoto$b Hideki$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aSawada$b Osamu$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910838178603321 996 $aPolarity-Sensitive Expressions$93602618 997 $aUNINA