Abstract
Negation is crucial to semantics. Negative polarity items (NPI) play an important role in negation. There are a few studies on NPIs in Chinese, but so far no research is on NPIs in Chinese existential sentences (ESs). Because the existential verb
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A Study of Negative Polarity Items in Chinese Existential SentencesCollege of Foreign Languages, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China Received September 16, 2020; Revised November 23, 2020; Accepted December 13, 2020
Negative polarity refers to the grammatical property of a word or phrase, such as ever or any in English that may normally be used only in a semantically or syntactically negative or interrogative context [1]
Negative polarity items occur in Chinese existential sentences, for example: (1) Chouti li meiyou renhe dongxi
Summary
College of Foreign Languages, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China Received September 16, 2020; Revised November 23, 2020; Accepted December 13, 2020. Cite This Paper in the following Citation Styles (a): [1] Wencheng Gao, Xiaofeng Zhang , "A Study of Negative Polarity Items in Chinese Existential Sentences," Linguistics and Literature Studies, Vol 9, No 1, pp. A Study of Negative Polarity Items in Chinese Existential Sentences. Linguistics and Literature Studies, 9(1), 12 - 21.
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