NPI licensing in Jordanian Arabic: An argument for downward entailment and syntax-semantics interface
Recent work shows that downward entailment (DE) cannot be the right semantic domain that licenses negative polarity items (NPIs). Zwarts (1995), Giannakidou (1998), among others, argue that NPIs are licensed in non-veridical domains, those that do not entail or presuppose the truth of the propositio...
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| Language: | English |
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Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Topics in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/topling-2017-0008 |