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Negative sensitive items and the discourse-configurational nature of Japanese [PDF]
We take up three Negative Sensitive Items (NSIs) in Japanese, Wh-MO plain negative indefinites, exceptive XP-sika, and certain minimizing indefinites, such as rokuna N (‘any decent N’).
Hedde Zeijlstra +2 more
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CD8+ T cell memory is sustained in mice by hepatic stellate cells
HSC role in memory CD8+ T cell maintenance. Abstract Background and Aims Long‐lasting immunological memory is the ultimate goal of vaccination. Homeostatic maintenance of memory CD8+ cytotoxic T cells (MemCD8TCs) is thought to be mediated by IL‐15/IL‐15R heterodimer (15HD)‐expressing myeloid cells.
Yi‐Ting Chen +4 more
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Indefinites, negation and Jespersen's Cycle in the history of Low German [PDF]
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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A negative cycle in 12th-15th-century Hungarian [PDF]
This paper analyzes the changes having taken place in the syntax of negation in 12-15th century Hungarian. It points out a change in the position of the negative particle, and shows it to be related to the change of basic word order from ’SOV’ to ...
É. Kiss, Katalin
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Negative Features on Negative Indefinites: Evidence from Split Scope [PDF]
The assumption that negative indenites are semantically non-negative elements associating with sentential negation has proven fruitful to account for the behaviour of negative indenites in languages exhibiting negative concord. Under this view, negative indenites carry a negative feature that has to be licensed by a semantic negation.
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La négation phrastique et les indéfinis négatifs en créole vincentien
In this study we examine the co-occurrence or preclusion of negative words (n-words) with sentential negation in Vincentian Creole which has drawn much of its lexicon from English.
Paula Prescod
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Indefiniteness and Specificity in Old Italian Texts [PDF]
Object of this study is the marking of nominal indefiniteness in Old Italian, more precisely Old Tuscan texts, in three collections of ...
Stark, Elisabeth
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Definiteness and determinacy [PDF]
This paper distinguishes between definiteness and determinacy. Definiteness is seen as a morphological category which, in English, marks a (weak) uniqueness presupposition, while determinacy consists in denoting an individual.
Beaver, David, Coppock, Elizabeth
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Mixtec negative existential cycles, standard negation and negative indefiniteness
Abstract: In Mixtec scholarship one finds hesitant claims that Mixtec standard negators (‘not’) derive from or are related to existential ones (‘there is not’). The data are complex, not least because there are several standard and existential negators.
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This paper integrates syntactic theory and variationist analysis in an investigation of the variation between English not-negation (I don’t have any money), no-negation (I have no money) and negative concord (I don’t have no money).
Claire Childs
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