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Negative Polarity Items in Definite Superlatives
Linguistic Inquiry, 2022Ordinary superlative descriptions are well-known to provide safe harbor to negative polarity items (NPIs), as in the longest book anyone read. What is less well-known is that relative superlative descriptions also sometimes host NPIs, as in the loudest that anyone sang.
Dylan Bumford, Yael Sharvit
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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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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 Items in Questions: Strength as Relevance
Journal of Semantics, 2003The traditional approach towards (negative) polarity items is to answer the question in which contexts NPIs are licensed. The inspiring approaches of Kadmon & Landman (1990, 1993) (K&L) and Krifka (1990, 1992, 1995) go a major step further: they also seek to answer the question of why these contexts license NPIs.
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EvenNegative Polarity Items andOnlyNegative Polarity Items
2013AbstractChapter 3 presents the main thesis of the book: Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) activate obligatorily the alternatives that ordinary indefinites activate optionally (i.e. subject to relevance). Two classes of NPIs are discussed: emphatic (minimizers, even-one/some NPIs) and non emphatic (ever, NP-any, Italian alcun).
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Use-conditional licensing of strong negative polarity items
2021Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol.
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Acquisition of negative polarity items
First Language, 1994Charlotte Koster, Sjoukje Van Der Wal
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On Ladusaw’s “On the Notion Affective in the Analysis of Negative-Polarity Items”
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 2022Jon Gajewski
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(Negative) Polarity Items in Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance Languages
Languages, 2022Maria Teresa Espinal i Farré
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Complement anaphora and negative polarity items
2019Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 11 (2007): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung ...
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