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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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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, Philipp Rönchen, Rico Sennrich, Joakim Nivre   +3 more
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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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I believe that he didn’t do it and I don’t believe that he did it. The influence of context on the semantic-communicative relations between sentence negation and performative negation

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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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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Arabic Negation and Speculation Scope Detection: a Transformer-based Approach. [PDF]

International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Information Sciences, 2023
Detecting the negation and speculation linguistic phenomena is vital for the performance of Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP) tasks. The negation and speculation scope detection problems have been addressed in a number of studies where most of ...
Ahmed Mahany, Heba Khaled, Said Ghoniemy
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Strong negation in the theory of computable functionals TCF [PDF]

Logical Methods in Computer Science
We 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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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., Sanford, Anthony J., Leuthold, Hartmut   +2 more
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Unnaturalness of Negation – an Old Wives’ Tale Retold

ELOPE, 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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La négation et ses marqueurs : cas des verbes non dynamiques en shǘpǎməm [PDF]

Akofena
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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