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Establishing the limits between polarity sensitivity, negative polarity and negative concord

Linguistic Typology
In 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, Espinal M.Teresa, Tubau Susagna   +2 more
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The Effect of Ambient Illumination and Text Color on Visual Fatigue under Negative Polarity [PDF]

Sensors
This 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, Jinhan Xie, Zhaoyang Dong, Yang Wang   +3 more
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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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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, Arsalan Golfam, Azita Afrashi   +2 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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The polarity asymmetry of negative strengthening: dissociating adjectival polarity from facethreatening potential

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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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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