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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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The Effect of Negative Polarity Items on Inference Verification [PDF]
Journal of Semantics, 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; Chierchia 2006).
Anna, Szabolcsi +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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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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Studies in African Linguistics, 2021 This paper investigates the interaction of focus and negation in the Bantu language Zulu (Nguni; S42). I discuss four strategies that are used to negate transitive sentences in Zulu. The default strategy, in which an object marker is added to the negated
Jochen Zeller
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Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2023 We examined perceptions of vaccines and changes during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. From 2019 to 2021, a national sample of young gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men completed an open-ended survey item about vaccine ...
Daniel Marshall +3 more
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Negative properties of quantifiers in English and Swedish [PDF]
Studii de Lingvistica, 2021 In this paper we report the results from two small-scale studies on monotone decreasing (negative) quantifying expressions (QEs) and their negative polarity properties.
Eva Klingvall , Fredrik Heinat
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The OL-DAWE Model: Tweet Polarity Sentiment Analysis With Data Augmentation
IEEE Access, 2020 Introducing negative items into sentences can shift the polarity of emotional words and leads to misclassification. Therefore, dealing with the negative item is indispensable to the analysis of the polarity of tweets.
Wenhuan Wang +4 more
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On the negative polarity sensitive indefinite determiner nakar ‘any’ in Faroese
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2009 This paper reports on fieldwork undertaken during the NORMS dialect workshop in the Faroe Islands in August 2008. I present and discuss findings from a questionnaire study of the negative polarity sensitive indefinite determiner nakar ‘any.’ The ...
Arne Martinus Lindstad
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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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