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Why can't we just use "ever" or "at all" in any sentence we want? What do we have to change about how a sentence works to let words like those in? In this week's episode, we talk about negative polarity items, or NPIs: when they can show up, why their name is misleading, and how changing what a sentence entails changes everything for these little terms.
This is Topic #74!
This week's tag language: Khmer!
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Most of the information for this episode comes from Anders Schoubye's lecture notes, Formal Semantics for Philosophers:
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