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Turkish negative polarity items & scope of negation revisited

, 2016
Power Point presentation.To have another look at some issues concerning certain negative polarity items (NPIs) in Turkish -- To revisit the scope of negation, the interaction between NPIs and negation, and the so-called intervention effects -- To shed ...
Görgülü, Emrah
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A law of meaning

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
This article rejects the canonical ideal of a one-to-one correspondence between meaning and marker and proposes a set-theoretical and optimality-based law for the relationship between meaning and its markers which allows for distinguishing true markers ...
Bernhard Wälchli, Anna Sjöberg
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Interface licensing conditions on negative polarity items: A theory of polarity and tense interactions

, 1994
This work analyzes the level at which Negative Polarity Item Licensing takes place on the basis of a cross-linguistic study of the licensing conditions imposed on Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) in structures where negation (Neg) is the polarity licenser.
Uribe-Echevarria, Maria
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Negative Polarity Items and Compound Negatives

Negative Polarity Items and Compound Negatives
P(論文) Lift a finger, a red cent, etc. in English mean yubi ippon ugokasu, bita itimon, etc. in Japanese, while mettani, kessite, etc. do not correspond to any English words. Mettani-nai, kessite-nai, etc. are equivalent to English rarely, never, etc. This paper tries to clarify the behavior of these two types of negatives.
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Acquiring negative polarity items

, 2015
Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) are words or expressions that exhibit a restricted distribution to certain negative contexts only. For example, yet is an NPI and must appear in the scope of a negation: Mary has *(not) finished yet. The existence of NPIs such as yet gives rise to a learnability problem for language-acquiring children.
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Negative polarity items in yes-no questions

, 2021
This thesis is about licensing of Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) in non-negative Yes-No (YN) questions in Turkish. I argue that NPIs are licensed in such environments only if the interrogative feature on C is spelled out by the question particle mI. I propose that this is achieved if the question particle, base-generated as the head of the FocP that ...
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Understanding water scarcity through sentiment analysis

Discover Cities
Water scarcity in Brazil’s semiarid cities disrupts daily life and magnifies inequalities in essential services. This study examines the predominant emotions and sentiment polarity expressed within televised news narratives about water shortages in the ...
Higor Brito, Priscila Alves, Marccus Hendricks, Iana Rufino   +3 more
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Sociolinguistics meets typology: Insight from vernacular speech to account for cross-linguistic patterns

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
This study explores how two English grammatical systems with alternative grammatical options expose typological tendencies. A study of negation, no vs. negative quantifiers (nothing) vs.
Sali Tagliamonte
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A Review of Negative Polarity Item Studies [PDF]

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2018), 2018
Lei Wang, Xiangyan Wu
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Attitudes towards people with mental disorders: results of a psychometric evaluation and confirmatory factor analysis of the stigma towards people with mental disorders (SToP-MD) scale. [PDF]

BMC Psychol
Cwik JC, Woud ML, Blackwell SE, Teismann T, Keita I, Margraf J.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source