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Linguocognitive foundations of teaching English negation

open access: yesВестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2020
Negation is a fundamental category in English that permeates the entire structure of the language. Learning negation is an important aspect of comprehensive language acquisition.
S. V. Motov
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Revisiting Negation in Neural Machine Translation

open access: yesTransactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021
In this paper, we evaluate the translation of negation both automatically and manually, in English–German (EN–DE) and English– Chinese (EN–ZH).
Gongbo Tang   +3 more
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Empirical Negation [PDF]

open access: yesActa Analytica, 2012
An extension of intuitionism to empirical discourse, a project most seriously taken up by Dummett and Tennant, requires an empirical negation whose strength lies somewhere between classical negation (‘It is unwarranted that. . . ’) and intuitionistic negation (‘It is refutable that. . . ’).
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Indefinites, negation and Jespersen's Cycle in the history of Low German [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper offers a formal account of the diachronic changes in the interaction between indefinites in the scope of negation and the expression of sentential negation in the history of Low German.
Breitbarth, Anne
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Unnaturalness of Negation – an Old Wives’ Tale Retold

open access: yesELOPE, 2006
Negation has a very long history of study. In the realm of logic, negation is seen as a simple operation that turns an affirmative to a negative. This assumption strongly affected the linguistic study of negation, and led to some misconceptions.
Gašper Ilc
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Guarded Negation

open access: yesJournal of the ACM, 2011
We consider restrictions of first-order logic and of fixpoint logic in which all occurrences of negation are required to be guarded by an atomic predicate. In terms of expressive power, the logics in question, called GNFO and GNFP, extend the guarded fragment of first-order logic and the guarded least fixpoint logic, respectively.
Barany, Vince   +2 more
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In praise of negation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Der Autor entwickelt eine kulturanthropologische und soziolinguistische Würdigung der Negation. Neinsagen gehört zu jeder aktiven Auseinandersetzung mit sozialen und sprachlichen Ordnungsmustern, die hierdurch für neue Erfahrungsmöglichkeiten geöffnet ...
McDermott, Ray
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Negation in context: evidence from the visual world paradigm [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Literature assumes that negation is more difficult to understand than affirmation, but this might depend on the pragmatic context. The goal of this paper is to show that pragmatic knowledge modulates the unfolding processing of negation due to the ...
Moxey, Linda   +3 more
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La négation et ses marqueurs : cas des verbes non dynamiques en shǘpǎməm [PDF]

open access: yesAkofena
Résumé: Cet article, intitulé La négation et ses marqueurs : cas des verbes non dynamiques en shǘpǎməm, décrit la structure négative des verbes non dynamiques en shǘpǎməm, langue bantu du grassfield parlée par le groupe ethnique bamun installé dans le ...
Ismaïla NJUTAPMVOUI
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Negative inversion, negative concord and sentential negation in the history of English [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
It is claimed in van Kemenade (2000: 62) that clauses with initial negative constituents are a context in which subject–verb inversion occurs throughout the history of English.
Chomsky   +16 more
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