From hell to polarity: "Aggressively non-D-linked" wh-phrases as polarity items

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 31-61

  Den Dikken, Marcel ^a   Giannakidou, Anastasia ^b,c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

(Non)veridicality; Aggressively non D linked wh phrases; Dependent indefinites; Focus movement; Intervention effects; Polarity items; Rhetorical and echo questions; Root nonroot asymmetry; Wh movement

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646187221     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 00243892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/002438902317382170     Document Type: Article

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