Syntactic and semantic coherence in Negative Polarity Items (NP1)-triggering; evidence from Dutch and Afrikaans

The aim of this article is to gain a clearer understanding of the contexts in which negative polarity items are found & why they are found in these contexts. First I explain what negative polarity items are & what kind of context they require. Next I introduce two different ways of classifyi...

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Published in:SA journal of linguistics = SA tydskrif vir taalkunde Vol. 17; no. 4; pp. 303 - 324
Main Author: ter Horst, Paul
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 01.11.1999
Subjects:
Afrikaans
Coherence
Comparative Linguistics
Dutch
Grammatical Categories
Negation
Semantic Categories
ISSN:1011-8063
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Summary:The aim of this article is to gain a clearer understanding of the contexts in which negative polarity items are found & why they are found in these contexts. First I explain what negative polarity items are & what kind of context they require. Next I introduce two different ways of classifying negative polarity items, by grammatical & semantic criteria. I then present my own research, in which I compared Dutch negative polarity items & their Afrikaans counterparts. In order to see whether there is a match between the grammatical & the semantic classification of negative polarity items, negative polarity items of different grammatical & semantic classes are considered. My conclusion is that there is a causal relation between the semantic & the grammatical classification. 3 Tables, 5 Figures, 11 References. Adapted from the source document
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ISSN:1011-8063
DOI:10.1080/10118063.1999.9724545