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Downward Entailing and Chinese Polarity Items

Downward Entailing and Chinese Polarity Items

Paperback

Series: Frontiers in Applied Linguistics

ChineseLinguistics

ISBN10: 0367590786
ISBN13: 9780367590789
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 14 2020
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Employing the downward entailing hypothesis as its analytical foundation, this book argues that downward entailment is the only licensor for different kinds of Chinese polarity items, and non-veridicality is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition and thus offers inferior explanatory power compared with the former.

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