Subjunctive, Habituality and Negative Polarity Items
Subjunctive, Habituality and Negative Polarity Items
复制标题
虚拟语气、习惯性和消极性项目
DOI:
10.3765/salt.v5i0.2703
复制
发表时间:
1995
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
A. Giannakidou
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
A. Giannakidou
Since the seminal work of Fauconnier ( 1 975) and Ladusaw ( 1980), it is standardly assumed that negative polarity items (NPIs) occur only in scale reversing contexts, sentence negation being one such context. Ladusaw (1 980) identifies downward entailment (or, monotone decreasingness (MD» as the semantic property giving rise to scale reversal. MD functions are order reversing functions as shown in definition ( 1) :