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Publication details [#27917]

Israel, M. 1996. Polarity sensitivity as lexical semantics. Linguistics and Philosophy 19 (4) : 619–666.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

information structure | polarity | quantification | semantics1

Place, Publisher

Kluwer

ISBN

0165-0157

Journal WWW

www.kluweronline.com/

Annotation

This paper argues that the effect of polarity sensitivity is created by the interaction of two scalar semantic features, quantitative and informative value, in a single lexical form.