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Polarity Sensitivity As (Non)Veridical Dependency

Polarity Sensitivity As (Non)Veridical Dependency( )
Author: Giannakidou, Anastasia
Series title:Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Ser.
ISBN:978-1-55619-907-3
Publication Date:Oct 1998
Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $165.00
Book Description:

Polarity phenomena have been known to linguists since Klima's seminal work on English negation. In this monograph Giannakidou presents a novel theory of polarity which avoids the empirical and conceptual problems of previous approaches by introducing a notion wider than negation and downward entailment: (non)veridicality. The leading idea is that the various polarity phenomena observed in language are manifestations of the dependency of certain expessions, i.e. polarity items, to the...
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Book Details
Pages:297
Detailed Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Syntax
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Semantics
Foreign Language Study / Greek (Modern)
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.396 x 9.555 Inches
Book Weight:1.507 Pounds



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