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Parasitic licensing of negative polarity items [PDF]
The 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
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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The syntax of polarity emphasis [PDF]
, 2013 A crosslinguistic survey of the expression of polarity emphasis reveals that some such expressions are subject to the distributional constraints typical of main clause phenomena, while others are not.
Breitbarth, Anne +2 more
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Minimizer negative polarity items in non-negative contexts
Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 2021 Minimizer strong NPIs such as ˋˋlift a finger'' are known to be more restricted in their occurrence than weak NPIs like ˋˋever''. Sedivy 1990 points to contexts with a ˋˋnegative side message'' in which ˋˋlift a finger'' can occur but ˋˋever'' cannot.
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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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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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El viaje desde los cuestionarios Likert a los cuestionarios de elección forzosa: evidencia de la invarianza de los parámetros de los ítems [PDF]
, 2019 Multidimensional forced-choice questionnaires are widely regarded in the personnel selection literature for their ability to control response biases.
Abad, Francisco J. +5 more
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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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Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004 In this paper I investigate a seemingly optional variation between accusative and partitive case in Finnish in yes/no questions and certain kinds of negative contexts.
Elsi Kaiser
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Glossa, 2018 This paper reports on five experiments investigating intervention effects in negative polarity item (NPI) licensing. Such intervention effects involve the unexpected ungrammaticality of sentences that contain an intervener, such as a universal quantifier,
Emmanuel Chemla, Lyn Tieu, Milica Denić
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