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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