{"id":4636,"date":"2012-05-27T18:56:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T17:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=4636"},"modified":"2012-05-27T18:56:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T17:56:55","slug":"polarity-focus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=4636","title":{"rendered":":Polarity focus:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Focus on the positive or negative nature of the verb phrase. Negative polarity focus in English is often signalled by placing the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1815\">intonational nucleus<\/a> on the negative marker, as in<em> I did <u>not<\/u> say that<\/em>. Positive polarity focus is signalled by placing the intonational nucleus on an auxiliary verb, which may be inserted specifically for this purpose, as in <em>I <u>do<\/u> like cabbage<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Focus on the positive or negative nature of the verb phrase. Negative polarity focus in English is often signalled by placing the intonational nucleus on the negative marker, as in I did not say that. Positive polarity focus is signalled &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=4636\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":209,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4636"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4636"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4642,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4636\/revisions\/4642"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}