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Establishing the limits between polarity sensitivity, negative polarity and negative concord
Linguistic TypologyIn this paper, by focussing on the behaviour of polarity elements from a variety of languages from different language families (namely, Basque, Hindi, English, Romanian, Spanish, Greek, Czech, and Russian) we investigate the relationship between polarity
Etxeberria Urtzi +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Negative Concord (NC) constructions such as the news anchor didn’t warn nobody about the floods (meaning “the news anchor warned nobody”), in which two syntactic negations contribute a single semantic one, are stigmatized in English, while their Negative
Frances Blanchette, Cynthia Lukyanenko
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Negative concord and (multiple) agree: a case study of West Flemish [PDF]
, 2010 This paper examines the formalization of negative concord in terms of the Minimalist Program, focusing entirely on negative concord in West Flemish. It is shown that a recent analysis of negative concord which advocates Multiple Agree is empirically ...
Haegeman, Liliane, Lohndal, Terje
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Micro-syntactic variation in American English Negative Concord
Glossa, 2017 This paper presents a series of quantitative gradient acceptability judgment studies of English negative sentences. Adult native speakers of American English recruited via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk were asked to rate sentences on a scale of 1 to 7 on the ...
Frances Blanchette
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Negative sensitive items in Turkish: Negative polarity or negative concord?
RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2020 This paper is concerned with the nature of negative sensitive items such as hiçkimse ‘no one’ and asla ‘never’ in Turkish. It is well attested in previous studies that these negative sensitive elements require the obligatory presence of sentential negation or some other licensor in the structure.
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Cognitive Processing of Verbal Quantifiers in the Context of Affirmative and Negative Sentences: a Croatian Study [PDF]
, 2016 Studies from English and German have found differences in the processing of affirmative and negative sentences. However, little attention has been given to quantifiers that form negations.
Bogunović, Irena, Ćoso, Bojana
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Language sample analysis for Spanish speakers [PDF]
, 2015 textThe purpose of this project was to develop a Spanish language sample analysis (LSA) scoring procedure for English-Spanish bilinguals used to guide clinicians in developing language goals and monitoring progress on those goals. A Spanish LSA procedure
Pool, Molly Lauren
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Language Dominance Affects Bilingual Performance and Processing Outcomes in Adulthood
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This study examines the role of language dominance (LD) on linguistic competence outcomes in two types of early bilinguals: (i) child L2 learners of Catalan (L1 Spanish-L2 Catalan and, (ii) child Spanish L2 learners (L1 Catalan-L2 Spanish). Most child L2
Eloi Puig-Mayenco +6 more
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The effect of negative polarity items on inference verification [PDF]
, 2008 The scalar approach to negative polarity item (NPI) licensing assumes that NPIs are allowable in contexts in which the introduction of the NPI leads to proposition strengthening (e.g., Kadmon & Landman 1993, Krifka 1995, Lahiri 1997 ...
Bott, Lewis +2 more
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Indefinites, negation and Jespersen's Cycle in the history of Low German [PDF]
, 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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