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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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Lightning Initiation From Fast Negative Breakdown is Led by Positive Polarity Dominated Streamers
Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 Evidence of positive polarity dominated streamers preceding fast negative breakdown (FNB) and of simultaneous positive and negative polarity streamer development in lightning initiation is reported.
A. Huang, S. Cummer, Y. Pu
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The effect of negative polarity items on inference verification [PDF]
, 2008 The scalar approach to negative polarity item (NPI) licensing assumes that NPIs are allowable in contexts in which the introduction of the NPI leads to proposition strengthening (e.g., Kadmon & Landman 1993, Krifka 1995, Lahiri 1997 ...
Bott, Lewis +2 more
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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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Trees and Fields and Negative Polarity
Hermes, 2011 The paper takes as its point of departure a comparison between two kinds of approaches to clause structure, namely tree analyses like the generative analysis and field analyses like the sætningsskema analysis of Danish of Diderichsen (1946) and many ...
Sten Vikner
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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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Quantification and polarity: negative adverbial intensifiers ('never ever', 'not at all', etc.) in Hausa [PDF]
, 2009 Hausa has a typologically interesting but poorly understood set of quantifying time and degree adverbs—equivalent to English 'never ever', 'not at all', etc.—which behave as negative polarity items and enhance the pragmatic impact of a negative utterance
Jaggar, Philip J.
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Novel ERP Evidence for Processing Differences Between Negative and Positive Polarity Items in German
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 One unresolved question about polarity sensitivity in theoretical linguistics concerns whether and to what extent negative and positive polarity items are parallel.
Mingya Liu +3 more
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Medial adjunct PPs in English: implications for the syntax of sentential negation [PDF]
, 2012 This paper provides evidence that medial adjunct PPs in English are possible. On the basis of corpus data, it is shown that sentence-medial adjunct PPs are not unacceptable and are attested.
Belletti +32 more
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Continued fractions built from convex sets and convex functions [PDF]
, 2014 In a partially ordered semigroup with the duality (or polarity) transform, it is possible to define a generalisation of continued fractions. General sufficient conditions for convergence of continued fractions with deterministic terms are provided.
Molchanov, Ilya
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