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A Study of Negative Polarity Items in Chinese Existential Sentences

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ID22112474
AuthorsWencheng Gao, GAO Wencheng (University of Shanghai for Science and Technology), Xiaofeng Zhang (0000-0003-2738-3286, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology)
Year2021
Volume9
Issue1
Pages12-21
Publication date2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistics and Literature Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2331-642X • E-ISSN: 2331-6438
PublisherHorizon Research Publishing Co., Ltd. (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.13189/lls.2021.090102
OpenAlexW3125906091
LanguageEN
References cited3

Negation is crucial to semantics. Negative polarity items (NPI) play an important role in negation. There are a few studies on NPIs in Chinese, but so far no research is on NPIs in Chinese existential sentences (ESs). Because the existential verb

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