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The Effect of Negative Polarity Items on Inference Verification. [PDF]

J Semant, 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 ...
Szabolcsi A, Bott L, McElree B.
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Assessing the Role of Experimental Evidence for Interface Judgment: Licensing of Negative Polarity Items, Scalar Readings, and Focus [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
This paper reviews a series of experimental studies that address what we call “interface judgment,” which is the complex judgment involving integration from multiple levels of grammatical representation such as the syntax-semantics and prosody-semantics ...
Anastasia Giannakidou, Urtzi Etxeberria
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Negative Polarity Items in Telugu

Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2019
The paper presents a unified account of licensing conditions of Negative Polarity Items (NPI) in Telugu. Based on the distribution of NPIs in complex clauses, we state that negation c-commanding NPI at the base-generated. Consequently, features checking
Mayuri J. DILIP, Rajesh KUMAR
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(Negative) Polarity Items in Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance Languages [PDF]

Languages, 2022
This paper identifies the set of properties that polarity items (PI), negative polarity items (NPI) and negative concord items (NCI) satisfy in Catalan, Aragonese, Benasquese and Occitan. It shows that in Catalan, gaire ‘much, many’ is a PI, pas ‘at all’
M.Teresa Espinal, Ares Llop
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A register approach to negative concord versus negative polarity items in English [PDF]

Linguistics
Negative concord (NC) is used in many English varieties but usually considered ungrammatical in ‘standard’ contemporary English, where negative polarity items (NPIs) are used.
Rotter Stephanie, Liu Mingya
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The syntax of negative polarity items in Central Kurdish [PDF]

Cogent Arts & Humanities
This paper investigates the morpho-syntactic properties and structure of hych kasek ‘anyone’ and hych shitek ‘anything’, two negative polarity items (NPIs) in Central Kurdish (CK).
Hussein Al-Bataineh, Sameerah Tawfeeq Saeed   +1 more
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Do Language Models Understand Anything? On the Ability of LSTMs to Understand Negative Polarity Items [PDF]

BlackboxNLP@EMNLP, 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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Negative Polarity Items in Definite Superlatives [PDF]

Linguistic Inquiry, 2020
Ordinary 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 ...
Dylan Bumford, Y. Sharvit
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Spotting, collecting and documenting negative polarity items [PDF]

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2015
As the nature of negative polarity items (NPIs) and their licensing contexts is still under much debate, a broad empirical basis is an important cornerstone to support further insights in this area of research.
Lichte, Timm, Soehn, Jan-Philipp, Trawiński, Beata   +2 more
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The Diverse Landscape of Negative Polarity Items: On the Use of German NPIs as Experimental Diagnostics. [PDF]

J Psycholinguist Res, 2021
The goal of this study is to provide better empirical insight into the licensing conditions of a large set of NPIs in German so that they can be used as reliable diagnostics in future research on negation-related phenomena.
Schaebbicke K, Seeliger H, Repp S.
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