Association by movement: Evidence from NPI-licensing

Natural Language Semantics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 297-324

  Wagner, Michael ^a  

^a 216 Morrill Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative semantics; Contrastive negation; Focus; Focus association; NPI licensing; Only

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249085058     PISSN: 0925854X     EISSN: 1572865X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11050-007-9005-z     Document Type: Article

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