In this article，it is argued that the fact that polarity items may serve as negative answers to questions cannot be accounted for without considering pragmatic factors，that in accounting for the distribution of polarity items，it is necessary to distinguish between syntactic negation and pragmatic negation，and that not all conditionals can be treated the same way，since in accounting for the distribution of polarity items in the protasis of a certain type of conditional，it is necessary to allude to the desirability / undesirability of the protasis and apodosis.
Pragmatic and Semantic Factors in the Distribution of Polarity Items
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