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Minimizer negative polarity items in non-negative contexts
Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 2021 Minimizer strong NPIs such as ˋˋlift a finger'' are known to be more restricted in their occurrence than weak NPIs like ˋˋever''. Sedivy 1990 points to contexts with a ˋˋnegative side message'' in which ˋˋlift a finger'' can occur but ˋˋever'' cannot ...
M. Sailer
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Parasitic licensing of negative polarity items [PDF]
The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 2007 This paper proposes a new treatment of parasitically licensed negative polarity items, based on the idea that indefinite negative polarity items may optionally incorporate a negative feature from their licenser, and thus acquire the necessary features to in turn license a negative polarity item.
Jack Hoeksema
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Tags and Negative Polarity Items
Nordic Atlas of Language Structures Journal, 2017 Tags are elements or (remnant) clauses that attach to a sentence in order to signal various speech acts, e.g. the common question tags of the type is it? isn’t it?. An affirmative tag, which is used in order for the speaker to confirm the content of the matrix clause is presented in (1).
Østbø Munch, Christine B. +1 more
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Negative sensitive items in Turkish: Negative polarity or negative concord?
RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2020 This paper is concerned with the nature of negative sensitive items such as hiçkimse ‘no one’ and asla ‘never’ in Turkish. It is well attested in previous studies that these negative sensitive elements require the obligatory presence of sentential negation or some other licensor in the structure.
Emrah Görgülü
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Syntax of reduplication and negative-polarity items in Buli
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2022 Negative-polarity items in Buli, a Mabia (Gur) language spoken in Ghana, exhibit a mixed behavior between NCIs and NPIs (or between strong NPIs and weak NPIs). Thus, Buli presents a counterexample to Vallduvı's generalization that negative-polarity items
Ken Hiraiwa, G. Akanlig-Pare
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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 CommerceThe 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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Novel ERP Evidence for Processing Differences Between Negative and Positive Polarity Items in German [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 One unresolved question about polarity sensitivity in theoretical linguistics concerns whether and to what extent negative and positive polarity items are parallel.
Mingya Liu +3 more
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Subjunctive, Habituality and Negative Polarity Items
Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 1995 No abstract.
Anastasia Giannakidou
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International Journal of Language and Literary StudiesThis study investigates the semantic status of Spanish Negative Concord Items (NCIs) through their comparison with English Negative Quantifiers (NQs) and Polarity Items (PIs) in acceptability judgment tasks conducted among native speakers of Spanish and ...
Daniel Vergara
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