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Revisiting Negation in Neural Machine Translation
Transactions 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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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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, 2020 This chapter provides the state-of-the-art around expletive negation (EN), by discussing: (i) the relationship between EN and negative concord; (ii) EN as a real negation; (iii) EN as a special formative linked to an additional evaluative/expressive ...
Delfitto, Denis
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Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2018 The subject matter of the paper is an analysis of the semantic relations between sentence negation, performative negation, and declarations in reference to utterances which speech acts theory gives the label of representatives.
Maciuszek Józef
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Negative inversion, negative concord and sentential negation in the history of English [PDF]
, 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.
Wallage, Phillip
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Linguocognitive foundations of teaching English negation
Вестник 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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The Negation Jangan from a Lexical Functional Perspective [PDF]
, 2016 This paper is an investigation into the properties of the negation jangan in the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. The analysis shows that the negation jangan can negate verbs functioning as predicate in a sentence.
Truly Almendo Pasaribu +1 more
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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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Eye-movements and ERPs reveal the time course of processing negation and remitting counterfactual worlds [PDF]
, 2008 The ability to update our current knowledge using contextual information is a vital process during every-day language comprehension. To understand a negated statement, readers are required to cancel real-world expectations, but are not explicitly ...
Ferguson, Heather J. +2 more
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Strong negation in the theory of computable functionals TCF [PDF]
Logical Methods in Computer ScienceWe incorporate strong negation in the theory of computable functionals TCF, a common extension of Plotkin's PCF and G\"{o}del's system $\mathbf{T}$, by defining simultaneously strong negation $A^{\mathbf{N}}$ of a formula $A$ and strong negation $P^{
Nils Köpp, Iosif Petrakis
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