Skillet (band) Skillet (band) Skillet is an American Christian rock band formed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1996. The band currently consists of husband John (lead vocals, bass) and wife Korey Cooper (rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals) along with Jen Ledger (drums, vocals) and Seth Morrison (lead guitar). The band has released ten albums, with two, "Collide" and "Comatose", receiving Grammy nominations. Two of their albums, "Comatose" and "Awake", are certified Platinum and Double Platinum respectively by the RIAA while "Rise" is certified Gold . Skillet went through several line-up changes early in their career, leaving founder John Cooper as the only original
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