positive polarity item (PPI)

Related Term(s)

Sources

• TRASK 1993 211

  TRASK, R. L. (1993) A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics. New York: Routledge.

• ELL 3204 (= affirmative polarity item)

  The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

• MATTHEWS 1997 287

  MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.