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Is there any negative polarity in romanian?
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2008 I discuss the distribution and interpretation of the Romanian determiner vreun and analyze it as a special polarity item. I put forth the generalizations that capture its peculiar distribution: on the one hand, vreun has the behavior of a typical ...
Anamaria Fălăuş
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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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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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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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Negative Polarity Items in Telugu
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2019 The paper presents a unified account of licensing conditions of Negative Polarity Items (NPI) in Telugu. Based on the distribution of NPIs in complex clauses, we state that negation c-commanding NPI at the base-generated. Consequently, features checking
Mayuri J. DILIP, Rajesh KUMAR
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The acquisition of the negative polarity item 'any' in L2 English by L1 German speakers
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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The morphological dimension of polarity licensing [PDF]
, 2012 Polarity items must, by definition, fit inside the scope of their licenser; items like any N, in addition, appear to require a c-commanding and overt licenser. It is argued that the relevant restriction refers to precedence, not e-command, and that it is
Acquaviva, Paolo
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NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2016 Intensification, a general device used by speakers to convey their message more clearly and to strengthen their position to it (Bolinger 1972), has been discussed widely in the literature.
Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez
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Isogloss, 2022 This paper shows that Spanish ‘más que’ (lit. more than) is much more than a comparative construction synchronically. Phonological, syntactic, and semantic evidence shows that various grammatically different entities hide under this single spelling ...
Borja Herce
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On the Negativity of Moduli Spaces for Polarized Manifolds [PDF]
Vietnam Journal of Mathematics, 2021 AbstractGiven a log base space (Y, S), parameterizing a smooth family of complex projective varieties with semi-ample canonical line bundle, we briefly recall the construction of the deformation Higgs sheaf and the comparison map on (Y, S) made in the work by Viehweg–Zuo.
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