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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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Do Language Models Understand Anything? On the Ability of LSTMs to Understand Negative Polarity Items [PDF]
, 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 linguis- tics: (negative) polarity items.
Hupkes, Dieuwke, Jumelet, Jaap
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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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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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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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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 coordination of cell growth during fission yeast mating requires Ras1-GTP hydrolysis [PDF]
, 2013 The spatial and temporal control of polarity is fundamental to the survival of all organisms. Cells define their polarity using highly conserved mechanisms that frequently rely upon the action of small GTPases, such as Ras and Cdc42.
A Merla +58 more
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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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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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