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Negative polarity and the comparative

Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 1983
In this paper I have given a rather simple and, I believe, elegant semantics for the comparative, No account has been given of NP-comparatives involving measure noun phrases as in . See Klein (1980: 27ff.) for an excellent discussion.
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Neg-Raising and Polarity

Linguistics and Philosophy, 2007
The representation of Neg-Raising in the grammar is a matter of controversy. I provide evidence for representing Neg-Raising as a kind of presupposition associated with certain predicates by providing a detailed analysis of NPI-licensing in Neg-Raising contexts.
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Negative Polarity Items

2019
AbstractThis chapter presents an overview of the experimental investigations on Negative Polarity Items (NPIs). NPIs are grammatically licensed under a set of complex semantic, syntactic and pragmatic conditions. The linguistic complexity of NPI licensing makes it a rich empirical domain for investigating the cognitive architecture of language ...
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Negative Polarity Items in Chinese

2023
Negative polarity items (NPIs) are well known for their limited distribution, that is, their negation-implicating contexts, the phenomenon of which has attracted much attention in generative linguistics since Klima’s seminal work. There is a large amount of research on NPI licensing that aims to (a) identify the range of potential licensors of NPIs ...
Bo Xue, Haihua Pan
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PolaFormer: Polarity-aware Linear Attention for Vision Transformers

International Conference on Learning Representations
Linear attention has emerged as a promising alternative to softmax-based attention, leveraging kernelized feature maps to reduce complexity from quadratic to linear in sequence length.
Weikang Meng, Yadan Luo, Xin Li, Dongmei Jiang, Zheng Zhang   +4 more
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Polarization-Filtering Negative Curvature Fibers

Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science, 2018
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Wei, Chengli, Menyuk, Curtis, Hu, Jonathan   +2 more
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Negative and Positive Polarity

1994
In this book, Ljiljana Progovac presents cross-linguistic data on negative polarity, reflexive binding and the subjunctive mood, and proposes a unified analysis for various languages, including English and Serbian/Croatian. She argues that Negative Polarity Items (NPIs), such as 'anyone' and 'ever', are anaphoric in nature and must be bound in their ...
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Focus particles and negative polarity

Voprosy Jazykoznanija, 2022
In this article I discuss constructions i odin NP and daže odin NP ‘even one NP’ in Russian, which are negative polarity items (NPIs), e.g. Petja *(ne) smog rešit’ i / daže ODNU zadaču ‘Petya didn’t manage to solve even one problem’. Only daže-NPIs are grammatical in non-negative environments of NPI licensing, e.g.
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Negativity and ambiguity in negative polar questions

The Journal of Linguistics Science, 2023
Bum-Sik Park, Sei-Rang Oh
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Negative Polarity Expressions In Navajo

1995
Abstract The overt expression of negative polarity is achieved in Navajo by means of two constructions.
Ken Hale, Paul Platero
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