Polarity-Sensitive Expressions : Comparisons Between Japanese and Other Languages /

Polarity (positive, negative) is one of the most fundamental concepts in the system of language and there are many expressions that are sensitive to polarity. For example, any in English and wh-mo in Japanese appear in negative contexts, but not in positive contexts. While previous studies have show...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Imani, Ikumi (Editor ), Kishimoto, Hideki (Editor ), Sawada, Osamu (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2023]
Colección:The Mouton-NINJAL Library of Linguistics [MNLL] , 7
Temas:
Language arts.
Japanisch.
Polarität [Grammatik].
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Cross-Linguistic Variation.
Japanese.
Polarity-Sensitive Expressions.
Polarity.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Series preface
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Empirical and theoretical issues of polarity-sensitive expressions
  • Part I: Syntax of negative polarity items
  • Chapter 2 Negative polarity and clause structure in Japanese
  • Chapter 3 Negation-sensitive elements outside the Neg-domain
  • Part II: Syntax/semantics of polarity-sensitive expressions
  • Chapter 4 Degree quantification, minimum quantity predicates, and polarity in Japanese
  • Chapter 5 Polarity sensitivity of existential sentences with numerals in Japanese
  • Chapter 6 Polarity sensitivity and equative markers in Japanese and German
  • Part III: Positive polarity items
  • Chapter 7 On the rescuing of positive polarity items in Japanese and English: A hybrid approach
  • Chapter 8 Cross-linguistic variation in the scope of disjunction: Positive polarity, or anti-reconstruction?
  • Part IV: Discourse/pragmatic properties of polarity-sensitive items
  • Chapter 9 The forms and meanings of negative polar interrogatives in English and Japanese: Epistemic bias, information structure, prosody, and further issues
  • Chapter 10 The polarity sensitivity of reactive intensifiers in Japanese and English
  • Chapter 11 On propositional anaphora: 'Referential' propositions and propositional proforms
  • Chapter 12 Two types of attenuation strategies for polarity-sensitive items: The semantics of degree adverbs amari and sonnani in Japanese
  • Part V: Historical study of polarity-sensitive items
  • Chapter 13 Scope ambiguity and the loss of NPI feature: Evidence from the history of Japanese scalar particle dani
  • Index

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