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Negation in Igálà Negation in Igálà
Entrepalavras: Revista de Linguística do Departamento de Letras Vernáculas da Universidade Federal do Ceará, 2012 Unlike other Yoruboid languages, Igálà uses a double negation syntax which combines two independent but mutually obligatory elements to generate a single semantic unit of negation.
Johnson Folorunso ILORI +1 more
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Negation in Chinese : a corpus-based study. [PDF]
, 2008 This article explores negation in Chinese on the basis of written and spoken corpora of Mandarin Chinese. The use of corpus data not only reveals central tendencies in language based on quantitative data, it also provides typical examples attested in ...
Xiao, R. Z., McEnery, A. M.
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Studia Logica, 2023 AbstractSeen from the point of view of evaluation conditions, a usual way to obtain a connexive logic is to take a well-known negation, for example, Boolean negation or de Morgan negation, and then assign special properties to the conditional to validate Aristotle’s and Boethius’ Theses.
Luis Estrada-González +1 more
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Negation and Free Choice Inference in Child Mandarin
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 In sentences with internal negation, Free Choice Inferences (FCIs) are canceled (Chierchia, 2013). The present study investigated the possibility that FCIs are negated, not canceled, by external negation.
Haiquan Huang, Peng Zhou, Stephen Crain
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A corpus-based study of a Chinese-speaking child’s acquisition of English transferred negation
Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2022 Native speakers of English have a strong preference for transferred negation as opposed to non-transferred negation. The present study aims to examine whether young Chinese-speaking ESL learners have a target-like preference for transferred negation and ...
Huiqin Dai, Xu Wen, Rui Wen
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Double Negation as Minimal Negation
Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 2023 AbstractN. Kamide introduced a pair of classical and constructive logics, each with a peculiar type of negation: its double negation behaves as classical and intuitionistic negation, respectively. A consequence of this is that the systems prove contradictions but are non-trivial.
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Deep Learning Approach for Negation Handling in Sentiment Analysis
IEEE Access, 2021 Negation handling is an important sub-task in Sentiment Analysis. Negation plays a significant role in written text. Negation terms in sentence often changes the polarity of entire sentence from positive to negative or vice versa, resulting in the ...
Prakash Kumar Singh, Sanchita Paul
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Revisiting postverbal standard negation in the Jê languages
Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2022 In the Jê languages standard negators tend to take a post-verbal position. This paper asks why this should be the case and therefore discusses earlier accounts relating Jê standard negators to either negative verbs or privative postpositions.
Johan van der Auwera, Olga Krasnoukhova
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Presupposition and negation † [PDF]
Journal of Semantics, 1988 Abstract Ever since Strawson proposed (1950, 1952, 1954) to regard the negation operator in natural language as presupposition-preserving, there has been unclarity, in most of the literature, about the logical consequences of such a proposal. There was, and is, moreover, great unclarity regarding the relation between the semantics and
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A set of semantic and pragmatic criteria for descriptive vs. metalinguistic negation
Glossa, 2018 This article is about metalinguistic negation and the types of criteria making a straightforward distinction between descriptive (DN) and metalinguistic negation (MN). First, I will distinguish three types of negation: one type of DN and two types of MN,
Jacques Moeschler
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