Topics in Semantics: Negative Polarity Items (M-I-T)

• Entailment, entailment-reversal, non-monotonicity, negated DPs (M-I-T)
• Modified numeral quantifiers with distributive vs. collective predicates, maximal informativity, preview of the explanation  (M-I-T)
• Strawson entailment, surprise, only, singular definite descriptions  (M-I-T)
• Extension of the entailment relation, decomposing definites, partitives, distributivity operator (M-I-T)
• Conjunction, type-shifting, event semantics, thematic roles, exhaustivity (M-I-T)
• Existence presupposition, constraints and requirements on pruning (M-I-T)
• Exceptives, approximatives, reconstruction, universal modals, mass vs. count nouns (M-I-T)
• Other modal environments, Hindi NPIs, probability, and explanation (M-I-T)
• Additivity, singular definites, accommodation, non-monotone quantifiers, desire predicates (M-I-T)
• Intervention, minimizers, and variation  (M-I-T)