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Indefinites in comparatives [PDF]

Natural Language Semantics, 2014
The goal of this paper is to explain the meaning and distribution of indefinites in comparatives, focusing on English some and any and German irgend-indefinites.
Floris Roelofsen, Maria Aloni
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Negative Indefinites

2010
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Negation and Negative Dependencies

Annual Review of Linguistics, 2016
Languages may vary greatly in the way they express negation. Most languages exploit specifically designated negative markers, such as English not. Many languages may also use negative indefinites (such as English nobody or nothing) to express negation ...
Hedde Zeijlstra
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On negative indefinites in Gallo

Lingvisticae Investigationes, 2018
AbstractThis paper brings to bear primary fieldwork data from Gallo on negation and polarity related issues. We defend two correlated proposals. (i) The negative markerspas/pouintin Gallo are not inherently negative, but rather merely signal the presence of abstract semantic negation in their clause.
Becerra-Zita, Samantha, Demirdache, Hamida   +1 more
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Modal indefinites [PDF]

Natural Language Semantics, 2009
Across languages, we find indefinites that trigger modal inferences. This article contributes to a semantic typology of these items by contrasting Spanish algA(0)n with indefinites like German irgendein or Italian uno qualsiasi.
Luis Alonso-Ovalle, Paula Menendez-Benito   +1 more
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Negative refraction in indefinite media

Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 2004
Initial experiments on wedge samples composed of isotropic metamaterials with simultaneously negative permittivity and permeability have indicated that electromagnetic radiation can be negatively refracted. In more recently reported experiments [Phys. Rev. Lett.
David R. Smith, Pavel Kolinko, David Schurig   +2 more
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Negative Refraction in Indefinite Materials

Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2013
Negative refraction is a fantastic optical property and attracts more and more attentions. As first proposed, materials with negative permittivity and negative permeability simultaneously exhibit negative refraction. Recently, negative refraction was found in the indefinite medium based on the strong anisotropy of permittivity.
Hong Ya Wu, Ji Zhou
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Indefinites and negative concord in Maltese: towards a dynamic account

2013
Christopher Lucas
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3. Indefinites in the scope of negation and Negative Concord

Linguistik Aktuell, 2008
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Scandinavian Negative Indefinites and Cyclic Linearization

Syntax, 2011
.  In the Scandinavian languages, a [+negative] phrase must be licensed by Spec-head agreement in overt syntax, necessitating leftward movement of negative objects, Negative Shift (NegS). Although string-vacuous NegS is possible in all Scandinavian varieties, there is a considerable amount of crosslinguistic variation as to non-string-vacuous NegS.
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