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Novel ERP Evidence for Processing Differences Between Negative and Positive Polarity Items in German
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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Entrepalavras: Revista de Linguística do Departamento de Letras Vernáculas da Universidade Federal do Ceará, 2016 The Modern Hebrew adverbial bixlal (at all /any /actually/in fact /even /anyway /in general/ generally /altogether /in the first place) seems puzzling from a synchronic point of view since it functions both as a NPI lo..bixlal /bixlal lo (not…any/at all)
Ruti Bardenstein
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Negative properties of quantifiers in English and Swedish [PDF]
Studii de Lingvistica, 2021 In this paper we report the results from two small-scale studies on monotone decreasing (negative) quantifying expressions (QEs) and their negative polarity properties.
Eva Klingvall , Fredrik Heinat
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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.
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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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Glossa, 2018 This paper reports on five experiments investigating intervention effects in negative polarity item (NPI) licensing. Such intervention effects involve the unexpected ungrammaticality of sentences that contain an intervener, such as a universal quantifier,
Emmanuel Chemla, Lyn Tieu, Milica Denić
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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.
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Distinct patterns of neural activity during memory formation of nonwords versus words [PDF]
, 2007 Research into the neural underpinnings of memory formation has focused on the encoding of familiar verbal information. Here, we address how the brain supports the encoding of novel information that does not have meaning.
Otten, LJ, Quayle, AH, Sveen, J
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Quirky n-words in Polish: NPIs, Negative Qantifiers or neither?
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004 The present paper investigates the contexts in which the so-called n-words - the items which are taken to be Negative Polarity Items in Slavic languages - unexpectedly occur without a licensing negation marker on the verb.
Patrycja Jablonska
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The OL-DAWE Model: Tweet Polarity Sentiment Analysis With Data Augmentation
IEEE Access, 2020 Introducing negative items into sentences can shift the polarity of emotional words and leads to misclassification. Therefore, dealing with the negative item is indispensable to the analysis of the polarity of tweets.
Wenhuan Wang +4 more
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