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997586
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b751956
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| Main Entry
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Progovac, Ljiljana.
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| Title & Author
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Negative and positive polarity : : a binding approach /\ Ljiljana Progovac.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge [England] ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1994.
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| Series Statement
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Cambridge studies in linguistics ;; 68
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xii, 168 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0511554303
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: 0521444802
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: 9780511554308
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: 9780521444804
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-164) and index.
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| Contents
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1. Negative contexts: Serbian/Croatian -- 2. Negative contexts: English -- 3. Non-negative polarity contexts -- 4. Language variation -- 5. Rhetorical questions -- 6. Subjunctive: domain extensions -- 7. Free-choice items -- 8. Ladusaw and Linebarger.
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| Abstract
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In Negative and positive polarity, Ljiljana Progovac presents cross-linguistic data on negative polarity, reflexive binding and the subjunctive mood, and proposes a unified analysis for various languages, including English and Serbian/Croatian.
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Her analysis not only captures many similarities between polarity and anaphora, but also accounts for a number of hitherto unexplained facts about polarity items, for example, their scope restrictions, Comp involvement in NPI licensing, cross-linguistic variation, and their behaviour in subjunctive clauses.
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She argues that Negative Polarity Items (NPIs), such as 'anyone' and 'ever', are anaphoric in nature and must be bound in their governing category, while Positive Polarity Items (PPIs), such as 'someone' and 'already', are subject to Principle B of the Binding Theory. She also suggests that possible binders (and SUBJECTS) for polarity items are negation or else a polarity operator in the complementiser of questions, conditionals, and other clauses with an unfixed truth-value.
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Anaphora (Linguistics)
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Government-binding theory (Linguistics)
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Grammar, Comparative and general-- Syntax.
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Anaphora (Linguistics)
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Government-binding theory (Linguistics)
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Anaphore.
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Syntaxe.
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Théorie du liage et du gouvernement (Linguistique)
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17.51 schools of thought and theories in linguistics.
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Anaphora (Linguistics)
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Anaphora (Linguistics)
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Government-binding theory (Linguistics)
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Government-binding theory (Linguistics)
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Grammar, Comparative and general-- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general-- Syntax.
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Polariteit (taalkunde)
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Regeer- en bindtheorie.
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| Dewey Classification
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415
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| LC Classification
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P291.P776 1994
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17.51bcl
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17.52bcl
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18.04bcl
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7,25ssgn
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