The Grammar of Polarity: Pragmatics, Sensitivity, and the Logic of Scales (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)

Th e G rammar of Pol ari t y Many, and perhaps all, languages include constructions which are sensitive to the express...
Author:  Michael Israel

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