This bibliography is intended to collect mainly scientific publications that are primarily concerned with Polarity Items. At the moment, the bibliography is clearly biased towards publications on German, English and Dutch. We would be very grateful for references to literature on other languages.
This page is work in progress. It is part of a research project, which means that we can only guarantee its maintenance for the term of the project (i.e. until December 2008).
We are aware of the incompleteness of the bibliography. Therefore, we are grateful for all comments and references to other work related to PIs. Please contact Frank Richter.
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[Atlas, 1996] |
Jay David Atlas (1996). `Only' Noun Phrases, Pseudo-Negative Generalized Quantifiers, Negative Polarity Items, and Monotonicity. In: Journal of Semantics, 13:265--328. |
[Baker, 1970] |
C. Lee Baker (1970). Double Negatives. In: Linguistic Inquiry, 1:169--186. |
[Beaver and Clark, 2002] |
David I. Beaver and Brady Z. Clark (2002). Monotonicity and Focus Sensitivity. In: Proceedings of SALT XII. pp. 40--58. Published by CLC Publications, Cornell. |
[Blans and Willems, 2004] |
Jayme Blans and Janne Willems (2004). First Language Acquisition of NPIs: Formalised in HPSG. Manuscript, Universiteit Utrecht. |
[Błaszczak, 1998] |
Joanna Błaszczak (1998). Towards a Binding Analysis of Negative Polarity Items in Polish. Draft, based on a talk given at Formal Description of Slavic Languages II, Potsdam, 1997. |
[Borkin, 1971] |
Ann Borkin (1971). Polarity Items in Questions. In: Papers from the 5th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. pp. 53--62. Published by Chicago Linguistic Society. |
[Carlson, 1980] |
Greg N. Carlson (1980). Polarity `any' is Existential. In: Linguistic Inquiry, 11(4):799--804. |
[Carlson, 1981] |
Greg N. Carlson (1981). The Distribution of Free-Choice `any'. In: Papers from the Seventeenth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, CLS. pp. 8--23. |
[Chierchia, 2006] |
Gennaro Chierchia (2006). Broaden your views. Implicatures of Domain Widening and the 'Logicality' of Language. In: Linguistic Inquiry, 37(4):535--590. |
[Clark, 2006] |
Brady Clark (2006). Polarity Items and the Interdefinability of Universals and Exclusives. Handout from LSA 2006 Annual Meeting. January 6, 2006. |
[den Dikken, 2002] |
Marcel den Dikken (2002). Direct and Parasitic Polarity Item Licensing. In: The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 5(1--3):35--66(32). |
[Fauconnier, 1975] |
Gilles Fauconnier (1975). Pragmatic Scales and Logical Structure. In: Linguistic Inquiry, 6:353--375. |
[Fillmore et al., 1988] |
Charles Fillmore and Paul Kay and M. O'Connor (1988). Regularity and Idiomaticity in Grammatical Constructions: The Case of `Let Alone'. In: Language, 64:501--538. |
[von Fintel, 1999] |
Kai von Fintel (1999). NPI Licensing, Strawson Entailment, and Context Dependency. In: Journal of Semantics, 16(2):97--148. |
[Fry, 1999] |
John Fry (1999). Proof Nets and Negative Polarity. In: Mary Dalrymple (ed.), Semantics and Syntax in Lexical Functional Grammar. pp. 91--116. MIT Press. |
[Gajewski, 2005] |
Jon Gajewski (2005). Neg Raising: Polarity and Presupposition. PhD thesis, MIT. |
[Giannakidou, 1997] |
Anastasia Giannakidou (1997). The Landscape of Polarity Items. PhD thesis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. |
[Giannakidou, 1998] |
Anastasia Giannakidou (1998). Polarity Sensitivity as (Non)veridical Dependency. John Benjamins, Amsterdam-Philadelphia. |
[Giannakidou, 2006] |
Anastasia Giannakidou (2006). ONLY, Emotive Factives, and the Dual Nature of Polarity Dependency. In: Language, 82(3):575--603. |
[Giannakidou, 2007] |
Anastasia Giannakidou (2007). The Landscape of EVEN. In: Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 25:39--81. |
[Guerzoni, 2004] |
Elena Guerzoni (2004). `Even'-NPIs in Yes / No-Questions. In: Natural Language Semantics, 12:319--343. |
[Guerzoni, 2006] |
Elena Guerzoni (2006). Intervention Effects on NPIs and Feature Movement: Towards a Unified Account of Intervention. In: Natural Language Semantics, 14(4):359--398. |
[Guerzoni and Sharvit, To appear] |
Elena Guerzoni and Yael Sharvit (To appear). A Question of Strength: On NPIs in Interrogative Clauses. |
[Heim, 1987] |
Irene Heim (1987). A Note on Negative Polarity and Downward-Entailingness. In: NELS, 14:98--107. |
[Hoeksema, 1983] |
Jack Hoeksema (1983). Negative Polarity and the Comparative. In: Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 1(3):403--434. |
[Hoeksema, 1993] |
Jack Hoeksema (1993). Partitivity, Degrees and Polarity. In: Verbum, XXV(1):81--96. |
[Hoeksema, 1994] |
Jack Hoeksema (1994). On the Grammaticalization of Negative Polarity Items. In: Proceedings of the 1994 Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 20. pp. 273--282. |
[Hoeksema, 1996] |
Jack Hoeksema (1996). Review of Progovac 1994. In: Studies in Language, 20(1):196--207. |
[Hoeksema, 1996] |
Jack Hoeksema (1996). Zeg het met rozen: een vergelijking van drie idiomatische uitdrukkingen. In: TABU Bulletin voor Taalwetenschap, 26(3):129--149. |
[Hoeksema, 2005] |
Jack Hoeksema (2005). Variation and Change in the Licensing of Indefinite Polarity Items. Handout, LOT-School 2005. |
[Hoeksema, 2005] |
Jack Hoeksema (2005). De negatief-polaire uitdrukkingen van het Nederlands. Inleiding en lexicon. Unpublished manuscript, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. |
[Hoeksema, 2007] |
Jack Hoeksema (2007). Parasitic Licensing of Negative Polarity Items. In: Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 10(3):163--182. |
[Horn, 1978] |
Laurence R. Horn (1978). Remarks on Neg-Raising. In: Peter Cole (ed.), Pragmatics. Volume 9 of Syntax and Semantics. pp. 129--220. Academic Press, New York, San Francisco, London. |
[Horn and Lee, 1995] |
Laurence R. Horn and Young-Suk Lee (1995). Progovac on Polarity. In: Journal of Linguistics, 31:401--424. |
[Israel, 1995] |
Michael Israel (1995). Negative Polarity and Phantom Reference. In: Berkeley Linguistics Society, 21:162--173. |
[Israel, 1996] |
Michael Israel (1996). Polarity Sensitivity as Lexical Semantics. In: Linguistics and Philosophy, 19(6):619--666. |
[Israel, 2001] |
Michael Israel (2001). Minimizers, Maximizers, and the Rhetoric of Scalar Reasoning. In: Journal of Semantics, 18(4):297--331. |
[Israel, 2004] |
Michael Israel (2004). The Pragmatics of Polarity. In: Laurence Horn and Gregory Ward (eds.), The Handbook of Pragmatics. pp. 701--723. Oxford: Blackwell. |
[Jackendoff, 1969] |
Roman Jackendoff (1969). An Interpretive Theory of Negation. In: Foundations of Language, 5:218--241. |
[Jackson, 1995] |
Eric Jackson (1995). Weak and Strong Negative Polarity Items: Licensing and Intervention. In: Linguistic Analysis, 25:181--208. |
[Jayez and Tovena, 2005] |
Jacques Jayez and Lucia Tovena (2005). When `Widening' is too Narrow. In: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Amsterdam Colloquium. Amsterdam, pp. 131--136. |
[Kadmon and Landman, 1993] |
Nirit Kadmon and Fred Landman (1993). Any. In: Linguistics and Philosophy, 16(4):353--422. |
[Kas, 1993] |
Mark Kas (1993). Essays on Boolean Functions and Negative Polarity. PhD thesis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Groningen Dissertations in Linguistics 11. |
[Klima, 1964] |
Edward Klima (1964). Negation in English. In: Jerry A. Fodor and Jerrold J. Katz (eds.), The Structure of Language. pp. 246--323. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. |
[Klooster, 2003] |
Wim Klooster (2003). Negative Raising Revisited. In: Jan Koster and Henk van Riemsdijk (eds.), Germania et Alia. A Linguistic Webschrift for Hans den Besten. |
[Krifka, 1990] |
Manfred Krifka (1990). Some Remarks on Polarity Items. In: D. Zaefferer (ed.), Semantic Universals and Universal Semantics. pp. 150--189. Foris, Dordrecht. |
[Krifka, 1994] |
Manfred Krifka (1994). The Semantics and Pragmatics of Weak and Strong Polarity Items in Assertions. In: Proceedings of SALT IV. pp. 195--219. |
[Krifka, 1995] |
Manfred Krifka (1995). The Semantics and Pragmatics of Weak and Strong Polarity Items. In: Linguistic Analysis, 25:209--257. |
[Kürschner, 1983] |
Wilfried Kürschner (1983). Studien zur Negation im Deutschen. Gunter Narr, Tübingen. |
[Labov, 1972] |
William Labov (1972). Negative Attraction and Negative Concord in English Grammar. In: Language, 8:773--818. |
[Ladusaw, 1980] |
William A. Ladusaw (1980). On the Notion `Affective' in the Analysis of Negative-Polarity Items. In: Journal of Linguistic Research, 1(2):1--16. |
[Ladusaw, 1980] |
William A. Ladusaw (1980). Polarity Sensitivity as Inherent Scope Relations. Garland Press, New York. |
[Ladusaw, 1983] |
William A. Ladusaw (1983). Logical Form and Conditions on Grammaticality. In: Linguistics and Philosophy, 6:373--392. |
[Ladusaw, 1992] |
William A. Ladusaw (1992). Expressing Negation. In: Chris Barker and David Dowty (eds.), Proceedings of SALT II. Ohio State University, pp. 237--259. |
[Ladusaw, 1996] |
William A. Ladusaw (1996). Negation and Polarity Items. In: Shalom Lappin (ed.), The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory. pp. 321--341. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. |
[Lahiri, 1998] |
Utpal Lahiri (1998). Focus and Negative Polarity in Hindi. In: Natural Language Semantics, 6:57--123. |
[Lichte, 2005] |
Timm Lichte (2005). Korpusbasierte Akquirierung negativ-polärer Elemente. Master's Thesis, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft. |
[Linebarger, 1980] |
Marcia Christine Linebarger (1980). The Grammar of Negative Polarity. PhD thesis, MIT. |
[Linebarger, 1987] |
Marcia Christine Linebarger (1987). Negative Polarity and Grammatical Representation. In: Linguistics and Philosophy, 10:325--387. |
[Mahajan, 1990] |
Anoop Kumar Mahajan (1990). LF Conditions on Negative Polarity Licensing. In: Lingua, 80:333--348. |
[Martínez, 1999] |
Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez (1999). Negative Polarity Idioms in Modern English. In: ICAME Journal, 23:65--116. |
[Postal, 2004] |
Paul Postal (2004). Skeptical Linguistic Essays. Oxford University Press, Oxford. |
[Progovac, 1988] |
Ljiljana Progovac (1988). A Binding Approach to Polarity Sensitivity. PhD thesis, University of Southern California. |
[Progovac, 1993] |
Ljiljana Progovac (1993). Negative Polarity: Entailment and Binding. In: Linguistics and Philosophy, 16(2):149--180. |
[Progovac, 1994] |
Ljiljana Progovac (1994). Negative and Positive Polarity. A binding approach. Cambridge University Press. |
[Saddy et al., 2004] |
Douglas Saddy and Heiner Drenhaus and Stefan Frisch (2004). Processing Polarity Items: Contrastive Licensing Costs. In: Brain and Language, 90:495--502. |
[Sailer, 2007] |
Manfred Sailer (2007). Complement Anaphora and Negative Polarity Items. In: Estela Puig-Waldmüller (ed.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11, Barcelona. pp. 494--508. |
[Schwarz, 2005] |
Bernhard Schwarz (2005). Scalar Additive Particles in Negative Contexts. In: Natural Language Semantics, 13:125--168. |
[Sells, 2001] |
Peter Sells (2001). Negative Polarity Licensing and Interpretation. In: Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics. Volume 9. pp. 3--22. Published by Harvard University. |
[de Swart, 1998] |
Henriëtte de Swart (1998). Licensing of Negative Polarity Items under Inverse Scope. In: Lingua, 105:175--200. |
[Szabolcsi, 2004] |
Anna Szabolcsi (2004). Positive Polarity --- Negative Polarity. In: Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 22(2):409--452. |
[Tovena, 2001] |
Lucia M. Tovena (2001). The Phenomenon of Polarity Sensitivity: Questions and Answers. In: Lingua e Stile, XXXVI(1):131--167. |
[Tsimpli and Roussou, 1996] |
Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli and Anna Roussou (1996). Negation and Polarity Items in Modern Greek. In: The Linguistic Review, 13:49--81. |
[Vallduví, 1994] |
Enric Vallduví (1994). Polarity Items, n-Words, and Minimizers in Catalan and Spanish. In: Probus, (6):263--294. |
[van der Wouden, 1992] |
Ton van der Wouden (1992). Beperkingen op het optreden van lexicale elementen. In: De Nieuwe Taalgids, 85(6):513--538. |
[van der Wouden, 1997] |
Ton van der Wouden (1997). Negative Contexts. Collocation, Polarity and Multiple Negation. Routledge, London and New York. |
[van Os, 1989] |
Charles van Os (1989). Aspekte der Intensivierung im Deutschen. Gunter Narr, Tübingen. |
[van Rooy, 2003] |
Robert van Rooy (2003). Negative Polarity Items in Questions: Strength as Relevance. In: Journal of Semantics, 20:239--273. |
[Vasishth et al., 2006] |
Shravan Vasishth and Sven Brüssow and Richard L. Lewis and Heiner Drenhaus (2006). Processing Polarity: How the Ungrammatical Intrudes on the Grammatical. draft. |
[von Bergen and von Bergen, 1993] |
Anke von Bergen and Klaus von Bergen (1993). Negative Polarität im Englischen. Gunter Narr, Tübingen. |
[Welte, 1978] |
Werner Welte (1978). Negationslinguistik. Ansätze zur Beschreibung und Erklärung von Aspekten der Negation im Englischen. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, München. |
[Zepter, 2003] |
Alex Zepter (2003). How to be Universal when you are Existential: Negative Polarity Items in the Comparative: Entailment along a Scale. In: Journal of Semantics, 20:193--237. |
[Zwarts, 1981] |
Frans Zwarts (1981). Negatief polaire uitdrukkingen. In: GLOT, 4(1):35--132. |
[Zwarts, 1986] |
Frans Zwarts (1986). Categoriale grammatica en algebraïsche semantiek. Een onderzoek naar negatie en polariteit in het Nederlands. PhD thesis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. |
[Zwarts, 1995] |
Frans Zwarts (1995). Nonveridical Contexts. In: Linguistic Analysis, 25:286--312. |
[Zwarts, 1996] |
Frans Zwarts (1996). A Hierarchy of Negative Expressions. In: Heinrich Wansing (ed.), Negation: A Notion in Focus. pp. 169--194. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin and New York. |
[Zwarts, 1997] |
Frans Zwarts (1997). Three Types of Polarity. In: Fritz Hamm and Erhard W. Hinrichs (eds.), Plurality and Quantification. pp. 177--237. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. |