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Spotting, collecting and documenting negative polarity items [PDF]
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2010 As the nature of negative polarity items (NPIs) and their licensing contexts is still under much debate, a broad empirical basis is an important cornerstone to support further insights in this area of research. The work discussed in this paper is intended as a contribution to realizing this objective.
Soehn, Jan-Philipp +2 more
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Negative sensitive items and the discourse-configurational nature of Japanese [PDF]
Glossa, 2016 We take up three Negative Sensitive Items (NSIs) in Japanese, Wh-MO plain negative indefinites, exceptive XP-sika, and certain minimizing indefinites, such as rokuna N (‘any decent N’).
Hedde Zeijlstra +2 more
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Exclamative Wh-Phrases as Positive Polarity Items [PDF]
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2008 This paper studies the island effects induced by negation in exclamative sentences. In order to explain this phenomenon, I focus on the interaction between exclamative wh-phrases and negation, showing that negation can appear in exclamative sentences ...
Raquel González Rodríguez
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Evaluability: an alternative approach to polarity sensitivity [PDF]
, 2013 Based on Brandtler (2012), this paper argues that polarity items are sensitive to evaluability, a concept that refers to the possibility of accepting or rejecting an utterance as true in a communicative exchange.
Brandtler, Johan
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Licensing German negative polarity items in LTAG [PDF]
Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms - TAGRF '06, 2006 Our paper aims at capturing the distribution of negative polarity items (NPIs) within lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (LTAG). The condition under which an NPI can occur in a sentence is for it to be in the scope of a negation with no quantifiers scopally intervening.
Lichte, Timm, Kallmeyer, Laura
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NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2016 Intensification, a general device used by speakers to convey their message more clearly and to strengthen their position to it (Bolinger 1972), has been discussed widely in the literature.
Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez
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Do Language Models Understand Anything? On the Ability of LSTMs to Understand Negative Polarity Items [PDF]
, 2018 In this paper, we attempt to link the inner workings of a neural language model to linguistic theory, focusing on a complex phenomenon well discussed in formal linguis- tics: (negative) polarity items.
Hupkes, Dieuwke, Jumelet, Jaap
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Quantification and polarity: negative adverbial intensifiers ('never ever', 'not at all', etc.) in Hausa [PDF]
, 2009 Hausa has a typologically interesting but poorly understood set of quantifying time and degree adverbs—equivalent to English 'never ever', 'not at all', etc.—which behave as negative polarity items and enhance the pragmatic impact of a negative utterance
Jaggar, Philip J.
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The recent success of deep learning neural language models such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) has brought innovations to computational language research.
Unsub Shin, Eunkyung Yi, Sanghoun Song
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C-command constraints in German: A corpus-based investigation
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2022 Reinhart (1983) proposed that quantificational binding is subject to a surface c-command condition. Her claim has been widely accepted in the literature on the syntax-semantics interface.
Webelhuth Gert
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