A question of strength: On NPIs in interrogative clauses

Linguistics and Philosophy

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 361-391

  Guerzoni, Elena ^a   Sharvit, Yael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Interrogative clauses; Negative polarity items

Indexed keywords

EID: 36849082015     PISSN: 01650157     EISSN: 15730549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-007-9014-x     Document Type: Article

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