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Cognitive Constraints and Island Effects. [PDF]

open access: yesLanguage (Baltim), 2010
Hofmeister P, Sag IA.
europepmc   +1 more source

Non-negativity properties of operators in spaces with indefinite metric

open access: yesAnnales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae Series A I Mathematica, 1964
openaire   +3 more sources

Neighborhood effects on use of African-American Vernacular English. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015
Rickford JR   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Split Scope of Negative Indefinites

Language and Linguistics Compass, 2012
AbstractNegative indefinites, i.e. expressions like English nobody and no boy, give rise to split scope readings where another operator takes scope in between the negative and the indefinite meaning component. Split readings are puzzling under the standard analysis of negative indefinites as negative quantifiers.
exaly   +2 more sources

Prosody and the meanings of English negative indefinites

Journal of Pragmatics, 2018
Abstract This paper investigates the acoustic correlates of single and Double Negation (DN) readings of English negative indefinites in question–answer pairs. Productions of four negative words (no one, nobody, nothing, and nowhere) were elicited from 20 native English speakers as responses to negative questions such as “What didn't you eat?” in ...
Frances Blanchette, Marianna Nadeu
exaly   +2 more sources

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