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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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Grammaticalité et changement d’acceptabilité : le cas de help
Anglophonia, 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
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Licensing German negative polarity items in LTAG [PDF]
Proceedings 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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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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Comparison of Emotional Dysregulation Features in Cyclothymia and Adult ADHD
Medicina, 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
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Tags and Negative Polarity Items
Nordic 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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Null-expletive Subject in Japanese
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1993 In the current Government and Binding framework, every sentence must have a subject. When the matrix subject position is non-thematic, it is filled by an expletive. Japanese, however, lacks an overt expletive.
Terada, Michiko
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Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2020 Background: This study aimed to examine social-cognitive impairments in patients with schizophrenia using the Eyes test. In contrast to previous methods using the correct answers, we developed the Taiwanese version of the Eyes test and constructed the ...
Tai-Shan Li +7 more
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On the Grammaticalization of Negative Polarity Items
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1994 Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session Dedicated to the Contributions of Charles J. Fillmore (1994)
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Evaluation of internal reliability in the presence of inconsistent responses
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2010 Background We aimed to assess the impact of inconsistent responses on the internal reliability of a multi-item scale by developing a procedure to adjust Cronbach's alpha.
Lam T H, Ho S Y, Fong Daniel YT
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