Polarity Sensitivity as (Non)Veridical Dependency

by Anastasia Giannakidou

Polarity phenomena have been known to linguists since Klima's seminal work on English negation. In this monograph Giannakidou presents a novel theory of polarity which avoids the empirical and conceptual problems of previous approaches by introducing a notion wider than negation and downward entailment: (non)veridicality. The leading idea is that the various polarity phenomena observed in language are manifestations of the dependency of certain expessions,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556199074
• ISBN13: 9781556199073
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 282 Pages