Introductory Course on
Negative Polarity Items: Corpus Linguistics, Semantics, and Psycholinguistics

Frank Richter, Janina Rado, Manfred Sailer

ASSIGNMENT DAY 2:

Task:

Describe the six NPIs in your native language that you identified in
the previous assignment in a simplified CoDII entry:


Method:

- Choose three of the following 4 licensing environments of NPIs:

  - clausemate negation
  - n-word (nobody, never,...)
  - not every
  - doubt, refuse
    (example: Mary doubts that John has any friends)


- include syntactic information on your NPI in the entry (category, structure)

- add real world examples from a Google search for each licensing environment
  (indicate if you cannot find any)



- Mail your results by tomorrow 11am to fr@sfs.uni-tuebingen.de