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

• Pubblicazione: Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Context (Linguistics); Grammar, Comparative and general - Negatives; Polarity (Linguistics)
• Altri autori: EckardtRegine
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond 'Any' and 'Ever
• ISBN: 3-11-030523-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787647703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Trends in linguistics. . -Studies and monographs.