Negative polarity items in Ewe

Chris Collins; Paul M. Postal; Elvis Yevudey

doi:10.1017/S002222671700007X

Negative polarity items in Ewe

Chris Collins, Paul M. Postal, Elvis Yevudey

Aston Centre for Applied Linguistics (ACAL)

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Abstract

Collins & Postal (2014) argue that English NPIs have two distinct syntactic structures: a unary NEG structure and a binary NEG structure. They suggest that this distinction is generally valid for natural languages. This formal difference was taken to reconstruct the common distinction in NPI studies between strong and weak NPIs. The present analysis of Ewe NPIs seeks to provide cross-linguistic support for this dual conception of NPIs by showing that the ke-NPIs in this language are all properly analyzed exclusively as unary NEG structures.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	331-365
Journal	Journal of Applied Linguistics
Volume	54
Issue number	2
Early online date	4 May 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S002222671700007X
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2018

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Keywords

bipartite negation
events
Ewe
negative polarity items
weak and strong NPIs

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Negative polarity items in Ewe

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