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The Effect of Negative Polarity Items on Inference Verification. [PDF]
J Semant, 2008 The scalar approach to negative polarity item (NPI) licensing assumes that NPIs are allowable in contexts in which the introduction of the NPI leads to proposition strengthening (e.g., Kadmon & Landman 1993, Krifka 1995, Lahiri 1997 ...
Szabolcsi A, Bott L, McElree B.
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(Negative) Polarity Items in Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance Languages [PDF]
Languages, 2022 This paper identifies the set of properties that polarity items (PI), negative polarity items (NPI) and negative concord items (NCI) satisfy in Catalan, Aragonese, Benasquese and Occitan. It shows that in Catalan, gaire ‘much, many’ is a PI, pas ‘at all’
M.Teresa Espinal, Ares Llop
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Assessing the Role of Experimental Evidence for Interface Judgment: Licensing of Negative Polarity Items, Scalar Readings, and Focus [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This paper reviews a series of experimental studies that address what we call “interface judgment,” which is the complex judgment involving integration from multiple levels of grammatical representation such as the syntax-semantics and prosody-semantics ...
Anastasia Giannakidou, Urtzi Etxeberria
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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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Negative Polarity Items in Telugu
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2019 The paper presents a unified account of licensing conditions of Negative Polarity Items (NPI) in Telugu. Based on the distribution of NPIs in complex clauses, we state that negation c-commanding NPI at the base-generated. Consequently, features checking
Mayuri J. DILIP, Rajesh KUMAR
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Spotting, collecting and documenting negative polarity items [PDF]
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2015 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.
Lichte, Timm +2 more
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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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A register approach to negative concord versus negative polarity items in English [PDF]
LinguisticsNegative concord (NC) is used in many English varieties but usually considered ungrammatical in ‘standard’ contemporary English, where negative polarity items (NPIs) are used.
Rotter Stephanie, Liu Mingya
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Negative Polarity Items in Definite Superlatives [PDF]
Linguistic Inquiry, 2022 Ordinary 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 that anyone sang.
Dylan Bumford, Yael Sharvit
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The syntax of negative polarity items in Central Kurdish [PDF]
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesThis paper investigates the morpho-syntactic properties and structure of hych kasek ‘anyone’ and hych shitek ‘anything’, two negative polarity items (NPIs) in Central Kurdish (CK).
Hussein Al-Bataineh +1 more
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