Introductory Course on
Negative Polarity Items: Corpus Linguistics, Semantics, and Psycholinguistics

Frank Richter, Janina Rado, Manfred Sailer

ASSIGNMENT DAY 3:

Aim: 

Provide a quantitative profile of an NPI in your language.

Method: 

1) take one of the NPIs from your previous assignments.

2) collect the first 40 occurrences of this NPI in a corpus (or on the web)

3) classify them, using the CoDII context categories

4) indicate the occurrence ratios for the individual contexts


Mail your results by tomorrow 2pm to 

     manfred.sailer@phil.uni-goettingen.de