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Pragmatic Licensing of Czech SuperStrong Negative Polarity Items: An Experimental Study

open access: diamondStudies in Polish Linguistics, 2019
In this study, we report an experiment focusing on pragmatic factors (unlikelihood presupposition) in licensing of Czech superstrong negative polarity items.
M. Dočekal, Iveta Šafratová
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Turning negative: micro-steps from negative polarity item to negative-word

open access: greenLanguage Sciences, 2021
Abstract This paper revisits the debate as to whether n-words such as English nobody, French personne and Italian nessuno are indefinites or intrinsically negative. Intrinsic negative value is diagnozed by use in the three contexts of fragment answers, double negation and constituent negation.
Pierre Larrivée
openaire   +3 more sources

Negative sensitive items and the discourse-configurational nature of Japanese [PDF]

open access: yesGlossa, 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
doaj   +4 more sources

Negative Polarity Items, DPs and Phase Sliding

open access: diamondHacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2021
A negative polarity item (henceforth, NPI) needs a licensor and it may be an overt negation, question force, or a conditional clause (Benmamoun, 1997; Kelepir, 2001; Kumar, 2006; Kural, 1997; Laka, 2013; Mahajan, 1990; Vasishth, 1999). Studies on NPI literature abound and various studies have suggested various licensing conditions of NPIs.
Murat Özgen
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On the Grammaticalization of Negative Polarity Items

open access: bronzeAnnual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1994
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session Dedicated to the Contributions of Charles J. Fillmore (1994)
Jack Hoeksema
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Complement anaphora and negative polarity items

open access: green, 2019
Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 11 (2007): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung ...
Manfred Sailer
openaire   +2 more sources

A study of negative polarity items [PDF]

open access: green, 1994
departmental bulletin ...
Yoshida Takashi
core   +1 more source

Argument Negative Polarity Items in Korean

open access: hybridThe Journal of Studies in Language, 2010
최영식
openaire   +2 more sources

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