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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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Positive Polarity – Negative Polarity [PDF]
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 2004 Positive polarity items (PPIs) are generally thought to have the boringproperty that they cannot scope below negation. The starting point of the paper is theobservation that their distribution is significantly more complex; specifically,someone/something-type PPIs share properties with negative polarity items (NPIs).
Anna Szabolcsi
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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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(Negative) Polarity Items in Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance Languages
Languages, 2022 This paper identifies the set of properties that polarity items (PI), negative polarity items (NPI) and negative concord items (NCI) satisfy in Catalan, Aragonese, Benasquese and Occitan. It shows that in Catalan, gaire ‘much, many’ is a PI, pas ‘at all’
M.Teresa Espinal, Ares Llop
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Parasitic licensing of negative polarity items [PDF]
Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 2007 This paper proposes a new treatment of parasitically licensed negative polarity items, based on the idea that indefinite negative polarity items may optionally incorporate a negative feature from their licenser, and thus acquire the necessary features to in turn license a negative polarity item.
Jack Hoeksema
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On negative Sprites and the Polarity Paradox
Geophysical Research Letters, 2019 Energetic positive and negative cloud‐to‐ground (CG) flashes are both capable of producing sprites. Negative CGs typically outnumber the positive ones by 10 to 1.
Alfred Bing‐Chih Chen +7 more
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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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A Cognitive Approach to Double Negation in Persian [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2023 The purpose of the present study is to investigate double negation in Persian in the framework of Cognitive linguistics and based on the theory of mental spaces.
Maryam Arghavani +2 more
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Glossa, 2021 The interpretation of negated antonyms is characterised by a polarity asymmetry: the negation of a positive polarity antonym (X is not interesting) is more likely to be strengthened to convey its opposite (‘X is uninteresting’) than the negation of a ...
Diana Mazzarella, Nicole Gotzner
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Nominalization in Persian: Evidence for low negation
Glossa, 2022 This paper uses a novel argument based on nominalization to argue for a low structural position for negation in Persian. This proposal is advanced in two stages.
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour
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