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, 2013 In all these examples there appears to be mismatch between the position at which an indefinite appears and its preferred interpretation. Following many of the more recent contributions to the literature, I will assume that this is the hallmark of ...
Geurts, Bart
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ENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.While flexible TE devices hold promise for converting low‐grade waste heat (e.g., from human skin or electronics) into usable electricity, existing materials suffer from three major limitations: 1) poor mechanical stretchability (failing to match human skin's elongation, ~20–30%), limiting wearability; 2) tradeoffs between thermoelectric efficiency (e ...
Mingqi Liu +5 more
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Uninterpretable negative features on negative indefinites
Proceedings of the Amsterdam Colloquium, 2007 It was proposed by Ladusaw 1992 and Zeijlstra 2004 that negative indefinites in negative concord languages are semantically non-negative indefinites carrying an uninterpretable negative feature that has to be checked against a semantic negation. This analysis is extended to languages that do not exhibit negative concord. Crucial evidence comes from the
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Specificity and definiteness in sentence and discourse structure [PDF]
, 2013 In this paper, I argue that this informally given list of characteristics covers only a certain subclass of specific indefinites. […] In particular, I dispute the definition of specific indefinites as "the speaker has the referent in mind" as rather ...
Heusinger, Klaus von
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Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, EarlyView.Abstract Objectives Despite advances in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (PIBD) with biologics, remission rates remain at 47%–60% with loss‐of‐response rates at 60%–68%. Evidence for efficacy of dual biologic therapy (DBT) with anti‐tumor necrosis factor alpha therapy (anti‐TNF‐α)‐ vedolizumab (VDZ) for children refractory to anti‐TNF‐α therapy is ...
Jonathan E. M. O'Donnell +6 more
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On the Evolution of Old Portuguese Indefinite jamais ‘Never’—Syntactic Analyzability and Polarity
LanguagesIn Contemporary Portuguese, jamais ‘never’ is a negative indefinite that encodes temporal semantics and belongs to the set of strong Negative Polarity Items, being able to express negation on its own, in preverbal position.
Clara Pinto
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The Position of Negative Element in Prepositional Phrases with Negative Indefinites
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2013 Croatian negative indefinite expressions, or the so-called ni-words, are complex forms made by adding the prefix ni- to simple forms of indefinite pronouns.
Irena Zovko Dinković
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Far from obvious: the semantics of locative indefinites [PDF]
, 2015 Simple locative sentences show a variety of pseudo-quantificational interpretations. Some locatives give the impression of universal quantification over parts of objects, others involve existential quantification, and yet others cannot be characterized ...
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Theory of Supercritical Coupling and Generalized Bound States in the Continuum
Laser &Photonics Reviews, EarlyView.We develop a general theory of supercritical coupling and generalized bound states in the continuum (gBICs), revealing how interference between radiative and absorptive channels enables quality factors beyond conventional material‐loss limits. The framework unifies non‐Hermitian mode coupling, causality‐driven reactive interactions, and interference ...
Sergio Balestrieri +3 more
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A New Typology of Indefinite Pronouns, with a Focus on Negative Indefinites
, 2014 This dissertation aims at providing a new typology of indefinite pronouns, and of negative indefinites in particular, based on a representative 179-language sample and a convenience sample of 20 languages. This work builds on Kahrel (1996) and Haspelmath (1997). Negative indefinites have been proven difficult to define. In this dissertation, they are
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