Negative polarity Items: Between syntactic and pragmatic licensing

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Regine Eckardt
• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
• Term: from 2008 to 2012
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 94820003

• Final Report Year: 2012

Final Report Abstract

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Publications

• 2009. A Time-relational Approach to Aspect in Mandarin Chinese and English. In: Current Issues in Unity and Diversity of Languages, Collection of the papers selected from the 18th International Congress of Linguists.
  Mingya Liu
  
• 2009. An Empirical Perspective on Positive Polarity Items in German. In: Winkler, Susanne & Featherston, Sam (eds.) The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics. Volume 2: Product. 2009, Berlin : de Gruyter, pp. 197-216.
  Mingya Liu, Jan-Philipp Soehn
  (See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110216158.197)
• A Representational Theory of Negative Polarity Item Licensing. Habilitationsschrift, Universität Göttingen, 2009.
  Sailer, Manfred
  
• 2010. The Collection of Distributionally Idiosyncratic Items. An Interface between Data and Theory. In: S. Ptashnyk, E. Hallsteinsdóttir, N. Bubenhofer (eds): Korpora, Web and Databases. Computer-Based Methods in Modern Phraseology and Lexicography. Schneider, Hohengehren, ISBN 978-3-8340-0733-9, pp. 247-261.
  Frank Richter, Manfred Sailer, Beata Trawiński
  
• 2010. Universal Quantification and NPI Licensing. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, 14.2010, Vienna, pp. 273 - 288.
  Mingya Liu
  
• On booze and biscuits. The 46th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Proceedings, 2010.
  Eva Csipak
  
• 2011. Grammaticalization and Semantic Change. In: B. Heine, H. Narrog (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Grammaticalization. Oxford University Press. pp. 389 – 400.
  Regine Eckardt
  (See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199586783.013.0031)
• 2011. Negative Polarity Items im Englischunterricht. In: Andreas Krafft und Carmen Spiegel (eds.): Sprachliche Förderung und Weiterbildung - transdisziplinär. Series Forum Angewandte Linguistik, Vol. 51. 2011, Peter Lang, Frankfurt, pp. 139-156.
  Manfred Sailer, Eva Csipak
  
• 2012. The many careers of negative polarity items. In: K. Davidse, T. Breban, L. Brems, T. Mortelmans (eds.): Grammaticalization and Language Change: New Reflections. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2012, pp. 299 - 326.
  Regine Eckardt
  (See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/slcs.130.12eck)
• Multidimensional semantics of evaluative adverbs : current research in the semantics/pragmatics interface. 2011, Dissertation, Univ. Göttingen, Seminar für Englische Philologie.
  Mingya Liu
  (See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004248496)
• Multidimensional Semantics of Evaluative Adverbs. Current Research in the Semantics/pragmatics Interface, Vol. 26. 2012.
  Mingya Liu
  (See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004248496)
• Introduction. In: Csipak et al.: Beyond ʻanyʼ and ʻeverʼ. New explorations in Negative Polarity Sensitivity. 2013, pp. 3–20.
  Regine Eckardt, Manfred Sailer
  (See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110305234.3)
• Minimizers - Towards pragmatic licensing. In: Csipak et al.: Beyond ʻanyʼ and ʻeverʼ. New explorations in Negative Polarity Sensitivity. 2013, pp. 267-298.
  Regine Eckardt, Eva Csipak
  (See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110305234.267)
• Polarity in Context. In: Csipak, Eva, Regine Eckardt, Mingya Liu and Manfred Sailer (Eds.), Beyond ʻanyʼ and ʻeverʼ: Studies in Negative Polarity. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2013, pp. 351–368.
  Mingya Liu, Regine Eckardt, Janina Radó
  (See online at https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110305234.351)
• Sprache, sprachliche Bedeutung, Sprachverstehen und Kontext. In: Achim Stephan, Sven Walter (eds.) Handbuch Kognitionswissenschaft. Stuttgart, Metzler, 2013, S. 432-443.
  Nikola Kompa, Regine Eckardt, Susanne Grassmann, Henrike Moll