Rajesh Bhatt, University of Pennsylvania/MIT
The paper argues that certain complex predicates in Hindi-Urdu are polarity sensitive. Treating them as polarity sensitive nature enables us to explain facts about their distribution. Their licensing is most naturally expressed at a semantic level of representation. The passive/intransitive of inability behaves like a negative polarity item. Aspectual complex predicates behave like positive polarity items. The paper raises the question of exactly where the polarity sensitivity of these complex predicates marked.