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Do Language Models Understand Anything? On the Ability of LSTMs to Understand Negative Polarity Items [PDF]
BlackboxNLP@EMNLP, 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 linguistics: (negative) polarity items.
Jaap Jumelet, Dieuwke Hupkes
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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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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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Journal of Physics Communications, 2020 This study addresses the dielectric performance of nonpolar hydrocarbon liquids and mineral oils under negative polarity stress. Stopping length for non-breakdown streamers, breakdown voltages and velocities for various pre-breakdown streamer modes have ...
L. Lundgaard +4 more
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Scalar properties of negative polarity superlatives
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020 Most theories agree that polarity sensitivity must be related to scalarity one way or another. Superlatives are a good example of this, since their “endpoint nature” allows for them to be in negative contexts with a quantitative interpretation.
Ulises Delgado
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Extending the typology: negative concord and connective negation in Persian
Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2022 This paper aims to advance the general understanding of negative concord (as in English We don’t need no education) and connective negation (as in English neither … nor’) through an analysis of Persian.
Johan van der Auwera, Sepideh Koohkan
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An expletive negation unlike any other in Québec French
Isogloss, 2022 This paper explores ‘expletive’ uses of the negative marker pas in Québec French (QF) (Kemp 1982, Larriv´ee 1996), which despite checking every diagnostic for expletive negation (ExN), do not pattern with previously documented cases of ExN.
Aurore Gonzalez, Justin Royer
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Positive Polarity – Negative Polarity [PDF]
Natural Language & 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).
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Evaluability: an alternative approach to polarity sensitivity [PDF]
, 2013 Based on Brandtler (2012), this paper argues that polarity items are sensitive to evaluability, a concept that refers to the possibility of accepting or rejecting an utterance as true in a communicative exchange.
Brandtler, Johan
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C-command constraints in German: A corpus-based investigation
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2022 Reinhart (1983) proposed that quantificational binding is subject to a surface c-command condition. Her claim has been widely accepted in the literature on the syntax-semantics interface.
Webelhuth Gert
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