Braucht niemanden zu scheren: A survey of NPI licensing in German
Braucht niemanden zu scheren: A survey of NPI licensing in German
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Braucht niemanden zu scheren:德国 NPI 许可调查
DOI:
10.21248/hpsg.2006.23
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发表时间:
2006
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Jan
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作者:
F. Richter;Jan
In this contribution we will argue that negative polarity is a collocational
phenomenon that does not follow from other properties of the respective lexical
elements. With German data as evidence, we will follow a proposal by van der
Wouden and treat Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) as collocates which must be
licensed by abstract semantic properties of their contexts. Using a collocation
module for HPSG, which has been independently motivated for bound words and
idioms, we will show how to restrict the occurrence of NPIs to legitimate
environments, starting from the negativity hierarchy of licensing environments
by Zwarts. Besides a more fine-grained semantic licenser hierarchy, we will
establish syntactic licensing domains and general collocational restrictions of
NPIs.