Recent work on the syntax-semantics interface (see . (Dalrymple et al., 1994)) uses a fragment of linear logic as a 'glue language' for assembling meanings compositionally. This paper presents a glue language account of how negative polarity items (. ever, any) get licensed within the scope of negative or downward-entailing contexts (Ladusaw, 1979), . Nobody ever left. This treatment of licensing operates precisely at the syntax-semantics interface, since it is carried out entirely within the interface glue language (linear logic). .
