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The term 'affective' was used by Klima (1964) as denoting a property ('feature') of constituents that license [[Negative polarity items]].
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The term 'affective' was used by Klima (1964) as denoting a property ('feature') of constituents that license [[Negative polarity item]]s.
  
 
:::"AS for the grammatical similarities of ''neg'', ''wh'' and ''only'', these will now be described as resulting from the rpesence of a common grammatico-semantic feature to be referred to as ''Affect''(''ive''). Any ''Quant''(''ifier'') in construction with a constituent that contains the feature ''Affect''(''ive'') may ultimately appear as an indefinite." (Klima 1964:313)
 
:::"AS for the grammatical similarities of ''neg'', ''wh'' and ''only'', these will now be described as resulting from the rpesence of a common grammatico-semantic feature to be referred to as ''Affect''(''ive''). Any ''Quant''(''ifier'') in construction with a constituent that contains the feature ''Affect''(''ive'') may ultimately appear as an indefinite." (Klima 1964:313)

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The term 'affective' was used by Klima (1964) as denoting a property ('feature') of constituents that license Negative polarity items.

"AS for the grammatical similarities of neg, wh and only, these will now be described as resulting from the rpesence of a common grammatico-semantic feature to be referred to as Affect(ive). Any Quant(ifier) in construction with a constituent that contains the feature Affect(ive) may ultimately appear as an indefinite." (Klima 1964:313)


Reference

Klima, Edward S. 1964. Negation in English. In Jerry A. Fodor and Jerrold J. Katz (eds.) The structure of language. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 246-323.