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Hardcover Polarity Sensitivity as (Non)Veridical Dependency Book

ISBN: 1556199074

ISBN13: 9781556199073

Polarity Sensitivity as (Non)Veridical Dependency

(Book #23 in the Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today Series)

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,...

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