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The Oxford Handbook of Negation, 2020
This chapter investigates the phenomenon of negative polarity sensitivity. The term negative polarity items (NPIs) has been introduced in the literature to refer to forms whose distribution was observed to polarize in negative contexts.
L. Tovena
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This chapter investigates the phenomenon of negative polarity sensitivity. The term negative polarity items (NPIs) has been introduced in the literature to refer to forms whose distribution was observed to polarize in negative contexts.
L. Tovena
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The Oxford Handbook of Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics, 2019
This chapter presents an overview of the experimental investigations on Negative Polarity Items (NPIs). NPIs are grammatically licensed under a set of complex semantic, syntactic and pragmatic conditions.
M. Xiang
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This chapter presents an overview of the experimental investigations on Negative Polarity Items (NPIs). NPIs are grammatically licensed under a set of complex semantic, syntactic and pragmatic conditions.
M. Xiang
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Negative Polarity Items in Definite Superlatives
Linguistic Inquiry, 2020Ordinary 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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Negative polarity items in Ewe
Journal of Linguistics, 2017Collins & Postal (2014) argue that English NPIs have two distinct syntactic structures: a unary NEG structure and a binary NEG structure. They suggest that this distinction is generally valid for natural languages. This formal difference was taken to reconstruct the common distinction in NPI studies between strong and weak NPIs.
Chris Collins, P. Postal, Elvis Yevudey
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Complement anaphora and negative polarity items [PDF]
, 2019 Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 11 (2007): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung ...
Sailer, Manfred
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Negative polarity items in English and Korean
Language Sciences, 1996Abstract In a unified account of negative polarity and free choice expressed by amu/any or wh-indefinites in Korean and English, this paper argues that the notion of concession by arbitrary or disjunctive choice (based on indefiniteness) is crucial.
Chungmin Lee
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