24.979 | Fall 2018 | Graduate

Topics in Semantics: Negative Polarity Items

Equivalent #314

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Alfred Stieglitz’s 1926 photograph “Equivalent #314”

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The sun shining through a layer of clouds.
Caption:
Like the clouds that simultaneously obscure and reveal the sun in Alfred Stieglitz’s 1926 photograph “Equivalent #314,” negative polarity items may appear mysterious but can give us a window on the interaction of logic and grammar. (Public domain image courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art.)
Credit:
Public domain photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The sun shining through a layer of clouds.

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