CoDIIPPI.de was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg.
The Project Positive Polarity Items
CoDII-PPI.de is a systematic listing of German Positive Polarity Items (PPIs) and can be used as a flexible starting point for further research. CoDII-PPI.de contains the German PPIs which have been mentioned in the linguistic literature (cf. van der Wouden 1987, van Os 1989 and Ernst 2005) and which have been collected using the (enhanced) method proposed by Lichte (2005). For each item, we give syntactic information about the item itself and a licensing environment, which normally would trigger NPIs but which does not anti-trigger the given PPI. In addition, we propose a classification according to the contexts in which they occur. We added examples for each licenser from several publically available German corpora (at present these are: google, DWDS, corpora of the IDS).
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