Awake (Skillet album) Awake (Skillet album) Awake is the seventh album by American Christian rock band Skillet. It is the follow-up to their Grammy-nominated album "Comatose". The album was released August 25, 2009 by Lava Records and Ardent Records and debuted at No. 2 on the "Billboard" 200. The album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on July 27, 2010, and has since gone double platinum, selling over 2,000,000 copies to date. It was nominated for Top Christian Album at the "Billboard" Music Awards 2011 and won. This is the last album to feature guitarist Ben Kasica and
Polarity item in cross-linguistic semantics. Polarity item In linguistics, a polarity item is a lexical item that can appear only in environments associated with a particular grammatical polarity – affirmative or negative. A polarity item that appears in affirmative (positive) contexts is called a positive polarity item (PPI), and one that appears in negative contexts is a negative polarity item (NPI). The environment in which a polarity item is permitted to appear is called a "licensing context". In the simplest case, an affirmative statement provides a licensing context for a PPI, while negation provides a licensing context for an NPI. However, there