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Scalar Modifiers of Quantifier Phrases
Glossa, 2022 This paper analyzes the syntax and compositional semantics of scalar modifiers of quantifier phrases in expressions like almost every student, absolutely every student and nowhere near every student.
Chris Collins
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When ni- and -nibud’ are logically equivalent: Evidence from Russian nominalizations [PDF]
Rhema. Рема, 2020 This paper deals with the two sets of polarity sensitive items in Russian: ni- and -nibud’ pronouns. Non-specific indefinite -nibud’ pronouns (NSIs) are possible only in propositions that do not ensure truth, i.e. non-veridical contexts.
A. Gerasimova
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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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A Study of Negative Polarity Items in Chinese Existential Sentences
Linguistics and Literature Studies, 2021 Negation is crucial to semantics. Negative polarity items (NPI) play an important role in negation. There are a few studies on NPIs in Chinese, but so far no research is on NPIs in Chinese existential sentences (ESs). Because the existential verb “ you ”
Wen-Cheng Gao, Xiao-Feng Zhang
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Processing Attenuating NPIs in Indicative and Counterfactual Conditionals
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Both indicative and counterfactual conditionals are known to be licensing contexts for negative polarity items (NPIs). However, a recent theoretical account suggests that the licensing of attenuating NPIs like English all that in the conditional ...
Juliane Schwab, Mingya Liu
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From Latin to Modern Italian: Some Notes on Negation
Languages, 2022 This article aims at investigating some diachronic aspects of the Italian negative system, considering a time span ranging from Old Latin to Modern Italian.
Matteo Greco
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The Interpretation of Disjunction in the Scope of Dou in Child Mandarin
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 A recent theory provides a unified cross-linguistic analysis of the interpretations that are assigned to expressions for disjunction, Negative Polarity Items, Free Choice Items, and the non-interrogative uses of wh-phrases in languages such as Mandarin ...
Shasha An, Peng Zhou, Stephen Crain
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Do Language Models Understand Anything? On the Ability of LSTMs to Understand Negative Polarity Items [PDF]
BlackboxNLP@EMNLP, 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 linguistics: (negative) polarity items.
Jaap Jumelet, Dieuwke Hupkes
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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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