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Iatridou, Sabine; Zeijlstra, Hedde
Linguistic inquiry, 01/2021, Volume: 52, Issue: 1Journal Article
In this article, we discuss two negative polarity item (NPI) adverbials: (and its cousins , , etc.) and . We argue that much is to be gained by analyzing the two in juxtaposition. We first explore , following our approach in ; on the basis of our analysis of this item, we then explore . Our approach permits a unified account of , whose behavior has led researchers to consider it lexically ambiguous. The commonalities between and our unified also allow us to explain why both these boundary adverbials are strong as opposed to weak NPIs.
