Introduction

Current perspectives on positive polarity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3988776
AutoresMingya Liu (0000-0001-9426-3669, Osnabrück University, autor correspondente), Gianina Iordăchioaia (0000-0002-8847-6307, University of Stuttgart)
Ano2018
Volume56
Fascículo2
Páginas283-300
Data de publicação2018-02-23
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling-2017-0043
OpenAlexW2789698746
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas28

Polarity sensitivity has been an established key topic of linguistic research for more than half a century. The study of polarity phenomena can be extremely revealing about the internal structure of a language, as they usually involve an interaction at the interface between syntax, semantics and pragmatics. In the past, most attention was paid to negative polarity items. However, recent years have witnessed a growing interest in positive polarity items. As a continuation of this trend, this issue collects four papers dedicated to positive polarity items, which enrich the empirical domain with novel observations from different languages and appeal to diverse theoretical concepts such as scalarity and presupposition in their modeling of positive polarity. The results show that positive polarity is a distributional phenomenon that has different sources and most likely cannot be modeled in a unifying way, although there may be subsets of positive polarity items that allow unifying accounts

Appeal · Domain (mathematical analysis) · Linguistics · Negation · Polarity (international relations) · Political science · Pragmatics · Presupposition · Semantics (computer science) · Syntax · Chemistry · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation