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| Other authors / contributors: | Breban, Tine.
Brems, Lieselotte.
Mortelmans, Tanja.
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| ISBN: | 9789027273239
9027273235
9027205973
9789027205971
9781283895347
128389534X
9027273235
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | This study focuses on "the many careers of negative polarity items", taking a diachronic perspective on NPIs in general and on scalar NPIs in particular. Its main thesis is that scalar NPIs are prototypical NPIs. The downward entailing contexts of NPIs can be explained and made cognitively accessible by the pragmatic mechanisms associated with scalar NPIs, viz. the capacity to evoke alternatives (ALT) and the scalar interpretation of these alternatives (SCALE). NPIs with standard contexts of distribution are, or are otherwise tied to, scalar expressions, while NPIs with an idiosyncratic range.
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| Other form: | Print version: 9789027205971
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