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NEG-raising and long-distance licensing of negative polarity items

, 2017
J. Hoeksema
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Negative Polarity Items in Questions: Strength as Relevance

Journal of Semantics, 2003
The traditional approach towards (negative) polarity items is to answer the question in which contexts NPIs are licensed. The inspiring approaches of Kadmon & Landman (1990, 1993) (K&L) and Krifka (1990, 1992, 1995) go a major step further: they also seek to answer the question of why these contexts license NPIs.
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A Syntactic study of the Chinese negative polarity item renhe

Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale, 1996
In Chinese, the polarity sensitive (PS) renhe 'any' can occur only in negative polarity contexts such as negation, yes-no questions and conditionals. Our study shows that PS renhe must occur in the c-command domain of its licensor at LF. The distance of licensing depends on the verb type, and can either cross at most one clause boundary or more than ...
Yu-Fang Wang, Miao-Ling Hsieh
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EvenNegative Polarity Items andOnlyNegative Polarity Items

2013
AbstractChapter 3 presents the main thesis of the book: Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) activate obligatorily the alternatives that ordinary indefinites activate optionally (i.e. subject to relevance). Two classes of NPIs are discussed: emphatic (minimizers, even-one/some NPIs) and non emphatic (ever, NP-any, Italian alcun).
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Use-conditional licensing of strong negative polarity items

2021
Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol.
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Positive polarity items: an illusion of ungrammaticality

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
Negative Polarity Item (NPIs) produce an illusion of grammaticality in some contexts with negation. Many approaches to modelling the NPI illusion propose that it is driven by the processor's attempt to link an NPI to a negative element. We investigate an
Wesley Orth, Shayne Sloggett, Masaya Yoshida   +2 more
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A Comparative Study on English and Korean Negative Polarity Items

, 2021
Bokyeong Kim
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Acquisition of negative polarity items

First Language, 1994
Charlotte Koster, Sjoukje Van Der Wal
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On Ladusaw’s “On the Notion Affective in the Analysis of Negative-Polarity Items”

Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 2022
Jon Gajewski
exaly  

The Effects of Gender and Age on the Acquisition of English Negative Polarity Items: For Korean Secondary School Students from Multicultural Families

The British and American Language and Literature Association of Korea
Bokyeong Kim
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