• Lalremruati

This paper highlights the Negative Polarity Items in Mizo – a language spoken in the state of Mizoram, situated in North-East India. It attempts to explain the concept of the NPI as simple as possible. It identifies the NPIs, analyses their morphological structure, and categorises their licensing context or environment. This paper indicates that the NPIs in Mizo are licensed in three main contexts – in negation, conditional clauses, and polar questions. In further studying these environments, this paper observes two major findings regarding the NPIs. The first finding is that the analysed NPIs are not Free Choice Items or FCIs. The second feature is that most of the NPIs do not have an internal composition.

Negative Polarity Items, environment, context, licensing, Mizo

"Licensing Environment of Negative Polarity Items in Mizo", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.196-202, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901825.pdf

"Licensing Environment of Negative Polarity Items in Mizo", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp196-202, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901825.pdf