Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Series preface V
3. Preface VII
4. Contents IX
5. Contributors XIII
6. Introduction
7. Chapter 1 Empirical and theoretical issues of polarity-sensitive expressions 1
8. Part I: Syntax of negative polarity items
9. Chapter 2 Negative polarity and clause structure in Japanese 39
10. Chapter 3 Negation-sensitive elements outside the Neg-domain 83
11. Part II: Syntax/semantics of polarity-sensitive expressions
12. Chapter 4 Degree quantification, minimum quantity predicates, and polarity in Japanese 117
13. Chapter 5 Polarity sensitivity of existential sentences with numerals in Japanese 145
14. Chapter 6 Polarity sensitivity and equative markers in Japanese and German 165
15. Part III: Positive polarity items
16. Chapter 7 On the rescuing of positive polarity items in Japanese and English: A hybrid approach 185
17. Chapter 8 Cross-linguistic variation in the scope of disjunction: Positive polarity, or anti-reconstruction? 225
18. Part IV: Discourse/pragmatic properties of polarity-sensitive items
19. Chapter 9 The forms and meanings of negative polar interrogatives in English and Japanese: Epistemic bias, information structure, prosody, and further issues 261
20. Chapter 10 The polarity sensitivity of reactive intensifiers in Japanese and English 297
21. Chapter 11 On propositional anaphora: ‘Referential’ propositions and propositional proforms 343
22. Chapter 12 Two types of attenuation strategies for polarity-sensitive items: The semantics of degree adverbs amari and sonnani in Japanese 377
23. Part V: Historical study of polarity-sensitive items
24. Chapter 13 Scope ambiguity and the loss of NPI feature: Evidence from the history of Japanese scalar particle dani 415
25. Index 453