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Establishing the limits between polarity sensitivity, negative polarity and negative concord

Linguistic Typology
In this paper, by focussing on the behaviour of polarity elements from a variety of languages from different language families (namely, Basque, Hindi, English, Romanian, Spanish, Greek, Czech, and Russian) we investigate the relationship between polarity
Etxeberria Urtzi, Espinal M.Teresa, Tubau Susagna   +2 more
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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 Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance Languages

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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Negative Polarity Items in Telugu [PDF]

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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A register approach to negative concord versus negative polarity items in English

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

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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Scalar Modifiers of Quantifier Phrases

Glossa, 2022
This paper analyzes the syntax and compositional semantics of scalar modifiers of quantifier phrases in expressions like almost every student, absolutely every student and nowhere near every student.
Chris Collins
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When ni- and -nibud’ are logically equivalent: Evidence from Russian nominalizations [PDF]

Rhema. Рема, 2020
This paper deals with the two sets of polarity sensitive items in Russian: ni- and -nibud’ pronouns. Non-specific indefinite -nibud’ pronouns (NSIs) are possible only in propositions that do not ensure truth, i.e. non-veridical contexts.
A. Gerasimova
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Processing Attenuating NPIs in Indicative and Counterfactual Conditionals

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Both indicative and counterfactual conditionals are known to be licensing contexts for negative polarity items (NPIs). However, a recent theoretical account suggests that the licensing of attenuating NPIs like English all that in the conditional ...
Juliane Schwab, Mingya Liu
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From Latin to Modern Italian: Some Notes on Negation

Languages, 2022
This article aims at investigating some diachronic aspects of the Italian negative system, considering a time span ranging from Old Latin to Modern Italian.
Matteo Greco
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