A Review of Negative Polarity Item Studies

DOI

10.2991/icassee-18.2018.11How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Negative Polarity Item; Polarity Sensitivity; review

Abstract

Negative Polarity Item refers to some language structures which are limited by negative contexts. It could be found in many languages and applied in different parts within a sentence. Since 1980s, Negative Polarity Item has attracted wide attentions from home and abroad, which includes research on Negative Polarity Item’s syntax, semantics, pragmatics and etc. By analyzing the studies of Negative Polarity Item from the past 6 decades, this article finds that there is still debate on its concept, category, licensing mechanism, pragmatics functions, while deeper and fully researched studies are expected to be done in the future.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiangyan Wu
AU  - Lei Wang
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - A Review of Negative Polarity Item Studies
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 63
EP  - 65
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icassee-18.2018.11
DO  - 10.2991/icassee-18.2018.11
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