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Peer reviewedLee, Chungmin – Language Sciences, 1996
Examines negative polarity items in English and Korean and argues that a consistent explanation emerges if certain assumptions are entertained about indefiniteness and concession by arbitrary choice. The article maintains that the logical consequences of monotone decreasingness is transparent with strong negatives but less so with weaker ones. (18…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Korean, Negative Forms (Language)
