Negative and Positive Polarity : A Binding Approach
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
ISBN-10
0521444802
ISBN-13
9780521444804
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 17th, 1994
Print length
184 Pages
Weight
422 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.90 x 1.80 cms
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Grammar, syntax & morphologyGrammar, syntax and morphology
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In her cross-linguistic survey of negative polarity, reflexive binding and the subjunctive mood, Ljiljana Progovac proposes a unified analysis for various languages and argues that NPIs are anaphoric in nature, while PPIs are subject to Principle B of Binding Theory.
In this book, Ljiljana Progovac presents cross-linguistic data on negative polarity, reflexive binding and the subjunctive mood, and proposes a unified analysis for various languages, including English and Serbian/Croatian. She argues that Negative Polarity Items (NPIs), such as 'anyone' and 'ever', are anaphoric in nature and must be bound in their governing category, while Positive Polarity Items (PPIs), such as 'someone' and 'already', are subject to Principle B of the Binding Theory. She also suggests that possible binders (and SUBJECTS) for polarity items are negation or else a polarity operator in the complementiser of questions, conditionals, and other clauses with an unfixed truth-value. Her analysis not only captures many similarities between polarity and anaphora, but also accounts for a number of hitherto unexplained facts about polarity items.
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