Abstract
This chapter moves to the distribution of EADVs in and beyond entailment-cancelling contexts. It shows that LCP/CI can provide a type-logical account for 'polarity sensitivity' of EADVs, that is, the observation that they tend not to occur in negation. Polarity sensitivity is one of the most popular topics in generative linguistics. The idea is that in the lexicon there are items that tend only to occur in negative contexts and items that tend only to occur in positive contexts. The former are called negative polarity items (NPIs), and the latter positive polarity items (PPIs). The chapter goes through the distributional facts about EADVs in detail, which show their anti-collocational behaviours in negation and semantically or pragmatically related contexts such as modals, questions, conditionals, neg-rasing and volitional predicates. In German, semantic scope usually reflects surface structure c-command relations, that is, syntactically. Throughout, the chapter takes German as the main object language.Keywords:EADVs; German; positive polarity items (PPIs); negative polarity items (NPIs)
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