Surveys a wide variety of polarity items, both negative and positive, commonly found in English and other languages.
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Many languages include constructions which are sensitive to the expression of polarity: that is, negative polarity items, which cannot occur in affirmative clauses, and positive polarity items, which cannot occur in negatives. The phenomenon of polarity sensitivity has been an i…
Surveys a wide variety of polarity items, both negative and positive, commonly found in English and other languages.
"This book investigates the relation between language and logic. Gennaro Chierchia looks at the way syntactic and inferential processes interact in determining polarity sensitive and free choice phenomena. He analyses these as a form of grammaticized scalar implicature and seeks…
In a fundamental investigation of language and human reasoning Gennaro Chierchia looks at how syntactic and inferential processes interact through the study of polarity sensitive and free choice items. He reformulates the semantics of focus and scope and the pragmatics of implic…
Downward entailing and Chinese polarity items
by Chen, Li
fromFrontiers in Applied Linguistics
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Type: Book
"Polarity phenomena are pervasively observed in natural languages. Previous studies on Chinese polarity items are mainly in line with the non-veridicality approach. This book, however, employs the downward entailing hypothesis as its analytical foundation, and argues that downwa…
Downward entailing and Chinese polarity items
by Chen, Li
fromFrontiers in Applied Linguistics
0
Type: Book
"Polarity phenomena are pervasively observed in natural languages. Previous studies on Chinese polarity items are mainly in line with the non-veridicality approach. This book, however, employs the downward entailing hypothesis as its analytical foundation, and argues that downwa…