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Skolem Functions and Generalized Quantifiers for Negative Polarity Items Semantics

Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Ulyana Penzina, A. Stukachev
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The Effects of Gender on the Acquisition of English Negative Polarity Items : For Korean Secondary School Students

The British and American Language and Literature Association of Korea, 2023
In this study, an empirical survey was conducted on Korean secondary school students to understand the effect of gender on the acquisition of English negative polarity items(NPIs).
Bokyeong Kim
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Negative polarity items in negative and non-negative licensing contexts [PDF]

This thesis is concerned with the licensing conditions of negative polarity items (NPIs) in negative and non-negative contexts. NPIs are, generally speaking, (groups of) words that are licensed in the scope of negative operators. NPIs exhibit a large amount of variation with respect to what particular licensing contexts they can appear in, rang¬ing ...
Schaebbicke, Katharina Almut
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Analysis on the Perception of English Syntactic Structures of Korean Secondary School Students: Focused on Negative Polarity Items

The British and American Language and Literature Association of Korea, 2022
This study investigated the response rate of negative polarity items(NPIs) in English simple sentences among Korean middle school students who use English as a second language.
Bokyeong Kim
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Japanese Indeterminate Negative Polarity Items and Their Scope

Journal of Semantics, 2011
This article investigates scopal properties of negative polarity items (NPIs) in Japanese that are composed of so-called indeterminate pronouns and particle-mo, such as dare-mo ‘who-MO ’ and dore-mo ‘which-MO’.
Junko Shimoyama, J. Shimoyama
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Negative Polarity Items in Chinese

2023
Abstract Negative polarity items (NPIs) are well known for their limited distribution, that is, their negation-implicating contexts, the phenomenon of which has attracted much attention in generative linguistics since Klima’s seminal work.
Bo Xue, Haihua Pan
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A constraint-based modeling of negative polarity items in result clause constructions in Romanian

, 2020
The paper discusses the occurrence of emphatic negative polarity items (NPIs) in high degree result clause constructions. We will identify four distributional patterns for Romanian emphatic NPIs.
Monica-Mihaela Rizea, M. Sailer
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THE USE OF NEGATIVE POLARITY ITEMS IN ENGLISH AND SWAHILI: A SYNTACTICO – SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

International Journal of Research in Education Humanities and Commerce
The present paper contrasts English with the Swahili language at the level of syntax and semantics as far as the use of negative polarity items is concerned in order to foretell how divergences may hinder the learning of the other language as a foreign ...
Degaule Itolome Lingonde
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Licensing Negative Polarity Items

2021
This chapter concerns the role that syntax plays in licensing NPIs (negative polarity items). Scholars have argued for a semantic approach to characterizing the unifying properties of the wide range of licensors, such as negation, disjunction, interrogation, and subjunctives, licensors that all share the semantic notion of nonveridicality.
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A Comparison of the Utterance Patterns of English Negative Polarity Items : Focused on Subjects and Objects

The British and American Language and Literature Association of Korea
This study investigated the speech acts of Korean adolescents, focusing on the English negative polarity item(NPI) ‘any’, which, unlike Korean, exhibits subject-object asymmetry.
Bokyeong Kim
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