It’s not just NPI, is it?

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**Poster Session C** - Join me on Zoom chat during the Saturday Poster Session! https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/5140702808 Please leave comments on this page or reach out over email! Contact Email: worth@u.northwestern.edu Negative polarity items (NPIs) are lexical items which are grammatically licensed by a structural relationship with a negative licensor. NPI illusion is the relative acceptability of sentences where a negative element does *not* c-command the NPI compared to sentences with no negative elements. Tag questions, like NPI, are sensitive to the polarity of the clause to which they are attached. However, these elements don’t have any explicit licensing relationship with negation. We find evidence that inaccessible negation influences the processing of tag questions, much like it does for NPI, indicating that licensing may not be a necessary component for illusion, and polarity illusions may extend beyond just NPI.

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