Japanese dare-mo has been widely acknowledged to be an NPI, furthermore, a “strict” NPI in the sense of Giannakidou (2011) as it seems to be licensed only in an “antiveridical” environment, specifically, with a clausemate negation. However, there is a type of positive sentences in which dare-mo can appear, i.e. non-episodic sentences, which indicates that dare-mo is in fact not an NPI and its N...
