Beyond 'any' and 'ever'
Subtitle: new explorations in negative polarity sensitivity
By: by Eva Csipak, Regine Eckardt, Mingya Liu, Manfred Sailer
Series: Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs -- 262; Trends in linguistics -- 262.
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9783110303728; 9783110305234
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Polarity (Linguistics); Comparative and general Grammar; Negatives; Context (Linguistics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beyond 'any' and 'ever' / Regine Eckardt and Manfred Sailer; title: Mapping the west Germanic any's / Johan van der Auwera and Lauren Van Alsenoy; title: Polarity items in Strawsonian contexts: a comparison / Jack Hoeksema; title: From æghwæðer to either: the distribution of a negative polarity item in historical perspective / Volker Gast; title: Evaluability: an alternative approach to polarity sensitivity / Johan Brandtler; title: How to get even with desires and imperatives / Luka Crnic; title: On NPI licensing in possibility conditionals / I-Ta Chris Hsieh; title: An analogy between a connected exceptive phrase and polarity items / Jon Gajewski; title: The chance of being an NPI / Elena Herburger and Simon Mauck; title: The modal need VP gap (non)anomaly / Robert Levine; title: Minimizers: towards pragmatic licensing / Regine Eckardt and Eva Csipak; title: Revisiting the licensing problem through understating NPIs: the case of Japanese anmari "(not) very/much" / Ai Matsui; title: Really all that clear? / Edgar Onea and Manfred Sailer; title: Polarity in context / Mingya Liu, Regine Eckardt, and Janina Radó.