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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Fragment answers and double negation in strict negative concord languages [PDF]
, 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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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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Distinct patterns of neural activity during memory formation of nonwords versus words [PDF]
, 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
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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Evaluability: an alternative approach to polarity sensitivity [PDF]
, 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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The Effectiveness of Personalized Movie Explanations : An Experiment Using Commercial Meta-data [PDF]
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Masthoff, Judith, Tintarev, Nava
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Medial adjunct PPs in English: implications for the syntax of sentential negation [PDF]
, 2012 This paper provides evidence that medial adjunct PPs in English are possible. On the basis of corpus data, it is shown that sentence-medial adjunct PPs are not unacceptable and are attested.
Belletti +32 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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