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A Quantitative Approach to Microvariation: Negative Marking in Central Romance
Languages, 2022 This work presents an exploratory data analysis of the syntactic distribution of pre- and postverbal negation (N1 and N2) in a corpus of data gathered from two linguistic atlases, the Linguistic Atlas of France (ALF) and the Italo-Swiss Atlas (AIS ...
Diego Pescarini
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A convex pseudo-likelihood framework for high dimensional partial correlation estimation with convergence guarantees [PDF]
, 2014 Sparse high dimensional graphical model selection is a topic of much interest in modern day statistics. A popular approach is to apply l1-penalties to either (1) parametric likelihoods, or, (2) regularized regression/pseudo-likelihoods, with the latter ...
Khare, Kshitij +2 more
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A Corpus-Based Typology of Negation Strategies in Turkish Sign Language
Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2021 This paper investigates the distribution of negation strategies in Turkish Sign Language (TİD) in the light of frequency-based data from a naturalistic TİD Corpus.
Bahtiyar MAKAROĞLU
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ACQUISITION PREFERENCES FOR NEGATIVE CONCORD [PDF]
The Evolution of Language, 2010 Negated sentences in Dutch child language are analyzed. It is argued that, rather than an innate UG structure, the child's acquisition procedure explains a temporary rise and fall of negative concord. It is further suggested that natural preferences of the acquisition procedure are a substantive source for grammatical universals.
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A crosslinguistic perspective on n-words
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2007 The semantic status of so-called n-words in Negative Concord languages has been under considerable debate. This paper takes a new perspective on this problem by bringing Negative Concord together with two different phenomena that n-words give rise to in ...
Doris Penka
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Redundancy in ELF: A Corpus-Based Study on Negative and Modal Concord
Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 2021 English as a lingua franca (henceforth ELF) is a contact language that has attracted great attention due to its unique global role. Thus, numerous studies have been conducted to determine its characteristics, among which research on such processes as ...
Dorota Watkowska
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Negation And Negative Concord In Romance
Linguistics and Philosophy, 2002 This paper addresses the two interpretations that a combination ofnegative indefinites can get in concord languages like French:a concord reading, which amounts to a single negation, and a doublenegation reading. We develop an analysis within a polyadic framework,where a sequence of negative indefinites can be interpreted as aniteration of quantifiers ...
Swart, Henriëtte de, Sag, I.A.
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A bidirectional Optimality Theoretic analysis of multiple negative indefinites in Afrikaans
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2014 In the literature on negation, Afrikaans is generally categorised as a negative concord language. Unlike most other negative concord languages though, utterances containing multiple indefinites in the scope of negation are typically produced with a ...
Huddlestone, Kate, de Swart, Henriëtte
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Languages, 2023 In this paper I investigate the ne…ne construction in Turkish, illustrated by Ne Ali ne (de) Esra geldi ‘Neither Ali nor Esra arrived’. The meaning of the ne…ne construction roughly corresponds to the meaning of the neither…nor construction in English ...
Martina Gračanin-Yüksek
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Fragment answers and double negation in strict negative concord languages [PDF]
, 2016 International audienceThis paper revisits the phenomenon of negative concord (NC) as an instance of polarity sensitivity. We shed light on a new set of data regarding n-words as fragment answers to negative questions and show that we find unexpected ...
Falaus, Anamaria, Nicolae, Andreea
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