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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 Additive Particles

2020
Many languages have pairs of additive markers that exhibit a common morphological core. This paper focuses on the Romanian pair si and nici and offers an analysis that derives their distribution and interpretation. The crux of the analysis is the claim that nici spells out the negative marker n and the additive particle add; n is argued to contribute ...
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Negative polarity items in Ewe

Journal of Linguistics, 2017
Collins & Postal (2014) argue that English NPIs have two distinct syntactic structures: a unary NEG structure and a binary NEG structure. They suggest that this distinction is generally valid for natural languages. This formal difference was taken to reconstruct the common distinction in NPI studies between strong and weak NPIs.
CHRIS COLLINS, PAUL M. POSTAL, ELVIS YEVUDEY   +2 more
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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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Polarization-Filtering Negative Curvature Fibers

Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science, 2018
Frontiers in Optics 2018 Washington, DC United States 16–20 September ...
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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