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The structure of personality in Parkinson’s disease and the effects of age, years since diagnosis, and impulsivity [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ
Background Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder primarily characterized by motor and cognitive symptoms. However, emerging evidence suggests that personality alterations may also be present, potentially affecting patients’
Stefano Vicentin   +2 more
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Licensing German negative polarity items in LTAG [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms - TAGRF '06, 2006
Our paper aims at capturing the distribution of negative polarity items (NPIs) within lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (LTAG). The condition under which an NPI can occur in a sentence is for it to be in the scope of a negation with no quantifiers scopally intervening.
Lichte, Timm, Kallmeyer, Laura
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Fragment answers and double negation in strict negative concord languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
International audienceThis paper revisits the phenomenon of negative concord (NC) as an instance of polarity sensitivity. We shed light on a new set of data regarding n-words as fragment answers to negative questions and show that we find unexpected ...
Falaus, Anamaria, Nicolae, Andreea
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Distinct patterns of neural activity during memory formation of nonwords versus words [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Research into the neural underpinnings of memory formation has focused on the encoding of familiar verbal information. Here, we address how the brain supports the encoding of novel information that does not have meaning.
Otten, LJ, Quayle, AH, Sveen, J
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Grammaticalité et changement d’acceptabilité : le cas de help

open access: yesAnglophonia, 2018
This paper aims at establishing the role of processing factors on the evolution of acceptability in two case studies: the infinitival complementation of the verb help (with or without to) and the distribution of the construction [capacity + help].
Mathilde Pinson
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluability: an alternative approach to polarity sensitivity [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Comparison of Emotional Dysregulation Features in Cyclothymia and Adult ADHD

open access: yesMedicina, 2021
Background and Objectives: Emotional dysregulation is central to the problem of the overlap between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and cyclothymia.
Giulio Emilio Brancati   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Parasitic licensing of negative polarity items [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 2007
This paper proposes a new treatment of parasitically licensed negative polarity items, based on the idea that indefinite negative polarity items may optionally incorporate a negative feature from their licenser, and thus acquire the necessary features to in turn license a negative polarity item.
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Tags and Negative Polarity Items

open access: yesNordic Atlas of Language Structures Journal, 2017
Tags are elements or (remnant) clauses that attach to a sentence in order to signal various speech acts, e.g. the common question tags of the type is it? isn’t it?. An affirmative tag, which is used in order for the speaker to confirm the content of the matrix clause is presented in (1).
Østbø Munch, Christine B.   +1 more
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