Letting negative polarity alone for let alone

One of the core questions in the literature on polarity sensitivity is what Ladusaw (1996: 326) calls the Status Question: ‘[W]hat is the theoretical status of a structure containing an unlicensed polarity item?’ The traditional answer has been that, when a polarity item does not cooccur with an appropriate licensor, as with the classic negative polarity item any in (1b), the result is ungrammaticality — the sentence is either syntactically or semantically ill-formed. (For now, I use the asterisk as a general mark of unacceptability; a larger dossier of judgment marks will be introduced in §5.)

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