Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Beyond "any" and "ever" -- Mapping the West Germanic any's -- Polarity items in Strawsonian contexts - A comparison -- From æghwæðer to either: The distribution of a negative polarity item in historical perspective -- Evaluability - An alternative approach to polarity sensitivity -- How to get even with desires and imperatives -- On NPI licensing in possibility conditionals -- An analogy between a connected exceptive phrase and polarity items -- The chance of being an NPI -- The modal need VP gap (non)anomaly -- Minimizers - Towards pragmatic licensing -- Revisiting the licensing problem through understating NPIs - The Case of Japanese anmari '(not) very/much' -- Really all that clear? -- Polarity in context -- Index