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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Effects of Electrode Negative Pulsing Ratio in Direct Energy Deposition via Variable-Polarity Cold Metal Transfer Process on the Deposition Behavior and Microstructural Characteristics [PDF]
Metals, 2022 Interest in research on the application of variable-polarity cold metal transfer mode in wire-based direct energy deposition has been growing; particularly popular are investigations into the respective influences of polarity, amplitude of the arc ...
Tae Hyun Lee, Cheolhee Kim, Minjung Kang
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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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Trees and Fields and Negative Polarity
Hermes, 2011 The paper takes as its point of departure a comparison between two kinds of approaches to clause structure, namely tree analyses like the generative analysis and field analyses like the sætningsskema analysis of Danish of Diderichsen (1946) and many ...
Sten Vikner
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Do Language Models Understand Anything? On the Ability of LSTMs to Understand Negative Polarity Items [PDF]
, 2018 In this paper, we attempt to link the inner workings of a neural language model to linguistic theory, focusing on a complex phenomenon well discussed in formal linguis- tics: (negative) polarity items.
Hupkes, Dieuwke, Jumelet, Jaap
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The Effect of Ambient Illumination and Text Color on Visual Fatigue under Negative Polarity [PDF]
SensorsThis study investigates the effects of ambient illumination and negatively polarized text color on visual fatigue, exploring the issue of visual fatigue when using visual display terminals in low-illumination environments.
Qiangqiang Fan +3 more
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A register approach to negative concord versus negative polarity items in English [PDF]
LinguisticsNegative concord (NC) is used in many English varieties but usually considered ungrammatical in ‘standard’ contemporary English, where negative polarity items (NPIs) are used.
Rotter Stephanie, Liu Mingya
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Quantification and polarity: negative adverbial intensifiers ('never ever', 'not at all', etc.) in Hausa [PDF]
, 2009 Hausa has a typologically interesting but poorly understood set of quantifying time and degree adverbs—equivalent to English 'never ever', 'not at all', etc.—which behave as negative polarity items and enhance the pragmatic impact of a negative utterance
Jaggar, Philip J.
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The acquisition of the negative polarity item 'any' in L2 English by L1 German speakers [PDF]
Journal of the European Second Language Association, 2023 The study explores the acquisition of properties of the English existential quantifier any by German-speaking learners of English. The English existential quantifier is of particular theoretical interest, since its subtle grammatical constraints are ...
Tom Rankin, Thomas Wagner
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On the feasibility of a negative polarity electric sail [PDF]
Annales Geophysicae, 2009 An electric solar wind sail is a recently introduced propellantless space propulsion method whose technical development has also started. In its original version, the electric sail consists of a set of long, thin, centrifugally stretched and ...
P. Janhunen
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