Beyond 'Any' and 'Ever' : : New Explorations in Negative Polarity Sensitivity / / ed. by Regine Eckardt, Manfred Sailer, Eva Csipak, Mingya Liu.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Auwera, Johan van der,; Brandtler, Johan,; Crnič, Luka,; Csipak, Eva,; Eckardt, Regine,; Gajewski, Jon,; Gast, Volker,; Herburger, Elena,; Hoeksema, Jack,; Hsieh, I-Ta Chris,; Levine, Robert,; Liu, Mingya,; Matsui, Ai,; Mauck, Simon,; Onea, Edgar,; Radó, Janina,; Sailer, Manfred,; Van Alsenoy, Lauren,
• HerausgeberIn: Csipak, Eva,; Eckardt, Regine,; Liu, Mingya,; Sailer, Manfred,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 262
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (370 p.)

The grammar of negative polarity items is one of the challenges for 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 - eac...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Beyond “any” and “ever”
• Mapping the West Germanic any’s
• Polarity items in Strawsonian contexts – A comparison
• From æghwæðer to either: The distribution of a negative polarity item in historical perspective
• Evaluability – An alternative approach to polarity sensitivity
• How to get even with desires and imperatives
• On NPI licensing in possibility conditionals
• An analogy between a connected exceptive phrase and polarity items
• The chance of being an NPI
• The modal need VP gap (non)anomaly
• Minimizers – Towards pragmatic licensing
• Revisiting the licensing problem through understating NPIs – The Case of Japanese anmari ‘(not) very/much’
• Really all that clear?
• Polarity in context
• Index