Polarity sensitivity and evaluation order in type-logical grammar

We present a novel, type-logical analysis of polarity sensitivity: how negative polarity items (like any and ever) or positive ones (like some) are licensed or prohibited. It takes not just scopal relations but also linear order into account, using the programming-language notions of delimited continuations and evaluation order, respectively. It thus achieves greater empirical coverage than previous proposals.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2004
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Chung-chieh Shan
• Keywords: CORR 2004, Education, Greater Empirical Coverage, Negative Polarity Items, Polarity Sensitivity