The bi-polar Any

Jacques Jayez (1) , Lucia Tovena (2)

1 EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales
2 ITC-IRST - Il Centro per la ricerca scientifica e tecnologica

The distribution of "any" may be best understood by replacing the traditional NPI and FC partition with a classification that groups together positive and negative polarity (strong) manifestations while keeping apart indiscriminative (weak) uses.
The talk has concentrated on strong "any" and has shown that analyses based on scalar and on modal properties of "any" both support this new perception of the polarity sensitivity of the item

Mots clés: any; negation; polarity

Domaines: Linguistique

Jacques Jayez, Lucia Tovena. The bi-polar Any. Negation : Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics, ESRI, Salford, 30 oct. -1st nov. 1998, 1998, Salford, United Kingdom. ⟨halshs-00157224⟩