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Novel ERP Evidence for Processing Differences Between Negative and Positive Polarity Items in German [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 One unresolved question about polarity sensitivity in theoretical linguistics concerns whether and to what extent negative and positive polarity items are parallel.
Mingya Liu +3 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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Negative sensitive items in Turkish: Negative polarity or negative concord?
RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2020 This paper is concerned with the nature of negative sensitive items such as hiçkimse ‘no one’ and asla ‘never’ in Turkish. It is well attested in previous studies that these negative sensitive elements require the obligatory presence of sentential negation or some other licensor in the structure.
Emrah Görgülü
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Negative sensitive items and the discourse-configurational nature of Japanese [PDF]
Glossa, 2016 We take up three Negative Sensitive Items (NSIs) in Japanese, Wh-MO plain negative indefinites, exceptive XP-sika, and certain minimizing indefinites, such as rokuna N (‘any decent N’).
Hedde Zeijlstra +2 more
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Subjunctive, Habituality and Negative Polarity Items
Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 1995 No abstract.
Anastasia Giannakidou
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Turning negative: micro-steps from negative polarity item to negative-word
Language Sciences, 2021 Abstract This paper revisits the debate as to whether n-words such as English nobody, French personne and Italian nessuno are indefinites or intrinsically negative. Intrinsic negative value is diagnozed by use in the three contexts of fragment answers, double negation and constituent negation.
Pierre Larrivée
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The structure of personality in Parkinson’s disease and the effects of age, years since diagnosis, and impulsivity [PDF]
PeerJBackground Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder primarily characterized by motor and cognitive symptoms. However, emerging evidence suggests that personality alterations may also be present, potentially affecting patients’
Stefano Vicentin +2 more
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The many careers of negative polarity items [PDF]
, 2012 This study focuses on “the many careers of negative polarity items”, taking a diachronic perspective on NPIs in general and on scalar NPIs in particular. Its main thesis is that scalar NPIs are prototypical NPIs. The downward entailing contexts of NPIs can be explained and made cognitively accessible by the pragmatic mechanisms associated with scalar ...
Regine Eckardt
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Negation and Negative Polarity Items in Berber
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2004 n ...
Hamid Ouali
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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)
Jack Hoeksema
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