The Fine Structure of Polarity Sensitivity

List of contents

Foreword, 1 Introduction, 2 A journey through the literature, 3 Features of a semantic analysis of negative polarity, 4 Negation, eventualities and ordering relations: sensitive temporal adverbiais, 5 Negation, domain structure and evaluation procedures: a sensitive determiner, 6 Polarity sensitivity and negative concord marking, 7 Concluding remarks, Bibliography, Index

About the author

Lucia M. Tovena

Summary

First Published in 1998. Part of the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series, this study investigates the phenomenon of polarity sensitivity. It proposes a new perspective which focuses on the behaviour and properties of sensitive items and the phrases they form. It originated in the observation that the fine structure of the phenomenon requires a more articulated analysis than the standard one based on licensing conditions.

Product details

• Authors: Lucia M. Tovena, Tovena Lucia M.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.1998
• EAN: 9780815331339
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-3133-9
• No. of pages: 306
• Weight: 730 g
• Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; ART / General, The arts