Global positive polarity items and obligatory exhaustivity

I argue for a distinction between two types of positive polarity items (PPIs) which has not been recognized so far. While for some PPIs, anti-licensing is a strictly local phenomenon, for other PPIs anti-licensing should be stated as a <i>global</i> condition. I aim to contribute...

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Main Author: Benjamin Spector
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linguistic Society of America 2014-11-01
Series:Semantics and Pragmatics
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Online Access:http://semprag.org/article/view/2891