Japanese Polarity-Sensitive Items

@cite{haspelmath-1997}

Japanese indefinite pronoun polarity items, typed by the categories from Core.Lexical.PolarityItem.

Japanese builds polarity items compositionally from wh-words + particles:

• dare-mo (neg): wh + mo under negation → NPI (nobody)
• dare-demo: wh + demo → FCI (anyone/whoever)

def Fragments.Japanese.PolarityItems.dareMo : Core.Lexical.PolarityItem.PolarityItemEntry

dare-mo (under negation) — N-word. wh + mo under negation: 'dare-mo konakatta' (nobody came).

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def Fragments.Japanese.PolarityItems.dareDemo : Core.Lexical.PolarityItem.PolarityItemEntry

dare-demo — Free choice item. wh + demo: 'dare-demo dekiru' (anyone can do it).

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theorem Fragments.Japanese.PolarityItems.dareMo_dareDemo_distinct : dareMo.polarityType ≠ dareDemo.polarityType