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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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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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Negation, 'presupposition' and the semantics/pragmatics distinction [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
A cognitive pragmatic approach is taken to some long-standing problem cases of negation, the so-called presupposition denial cases. It is argued that a full account of the processes and levels of representation involved in their interpretation typically ...
Carston, R
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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

open access: yesStudies 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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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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Does BERT need domain adaptation for clinical negation detection?

open access: yesJ. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2020
INTRODUCTION Classifying whether concepts in an unstructured clinical text are negated is an important unsolved task. New domain adaptation and transfer learning methods can potentially address this issue.
Chen Lin   +5 more
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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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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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Cone Semantics for Logics with Negation

open access: yesInternational Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020
This paper presents an embedding of ontologies expressed in the ALC description logic into a real-valued vector space, comprising restricted existential and universal quantifiers, as well as concept negation and concept disjunction.
Ö. Özçep, Mena Leemhuis, D. Wolter
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