Biblical Hebrew: An Emphatic Negative Polarity Item

The indefinite pronoun ?, usually rendered 'anything', has been identified by several scholars as belonging to a linguistic category known as the negative polarity item (NPI). NPIs are words or phrases that cannot occur in simple episodic affirmative clauses but are grammatical in negative...

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Main Author: Moshavi, Adina Mosak (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2019]
In: Journal of Semitic studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 64, Issue: 1, Pages: 67-67
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