Fine Structure of Polarity Sensitivity

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. 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