Is 'sonderlich' losing its NPI-status?

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I am happy to answer any questions via email (<jschwab@uos.de>) or OSF comments. ----- Historically, the development and decline of polarity-sensitivity has been observed for NPIs in various languages. Still, the processes via which such language changes occur are poorly understood. In this study, we present comprehension and production data that questions whether the German NPI 'sonderlich' ('particularly') is losing its polarity-sensitivity. Participants rated affirmative (ungrammatical) sentences with the NPI as more natural and produced them to greater extents than negative sentences. The results clash with corpus data on the distribution of 'sonderlich' and with experimental findings for other NPIs. We thus argue that our participants were not processing 'sonderlich' as polarity-sensitive item.

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