Negative and Positive Polarity: A Binding Approach (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)

Progovac, Ljiljana (Author)

ISBN 10: 0521444802 / ISBN 13: 9780521444804

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Negative and Positive Polarity: A Binding Approach (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521444802
• ISBN 13: 9780521444804
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Linguistics Box

About this title

Synopsis

In this book, 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. 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. Her analysis not only captures many similarities between polarity and anaphora, but also accounts for a number of hitherto unexplained facts about polarity items.

Book Description

In her cross-linguistic survey of negative polarity, reflexive binding and the subjunctive mood, Ljiljana Progovac proposes a unified analysis for various languages and argues that NPIs are anaphoric in nature, while PPIs are subject to Principle B of Binding Theory.