Negative Polarity in Turkish: from negation to nonveridicality

This paper is concerned with the Turkish negative polarity items (NPIs henceforth) and the nature of various contexts in which they are licensed. Based on new data, it is shown that NPIs in Turkish are not only licensed by sentential negation and yes/no questions, they also appear in protasis of con...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Emrah Görgülü
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Learned Press 2017-12-01
Series:Macrolinguistics
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Online Access:http://www.macrolinguistics.com/index.php?c=msg&id=700&