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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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Distributionally constrained items in child language: the acquisition of superweak NPI shenme ‘a/some’ in Mandarin Chinese [PDF]
Glossa, 2017 This paper presents new experimental results obtained from 88 Mandarin speaking children (2; 11 – 4; 09; M = 3; 11; SD = 0; 6; 44 girls) in their acquisition of shenme ‘a/some’, a prototypical superweak Negative Polarity Item (NPI) that survives in ...
Jing Lin
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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 ...
D. Vergara
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Pragmatic Licensing of Czech SuperStrong Negative Polarity Items: An Experimental Study [PDF]
Studies 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
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Processing polarity: ERP evidence for differences between positive and negative polarity [PDF]
Neuropsychologia, 2013 The goal of the present study was to investigate event-related potential (ERP) responses to Dutch negative and positive polarity adverbs of degree presented in licensed and unlicensed contexts with negative and affirmative particles directly preceding ...
den Ouden, Dirk-Bart +8 more
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The many careers of negative polarity items [PDF]
, 2012 This study focuses on “the many careers of negative polarity items”, taking a diachronic perspective on NPIs in general and on scalar NPIs in particular. Its main thesis is that scalar NPIs are prototypical NPIs. The downward entailing contexts of NPIs can be explained and made cognitively accessible by the pragmatic mechanisms associated with scalar ...
Eckardt, Regine, Regine Eckardt
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Alternative interrogatives and Negative Polarity Items
Snippets, 2020 Maayan Abenina-Adar, Y. Sharvit
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The morphological dimension of polarity licensing [PDF]
, 2012 Polarity items must, by definition, fit inside the scope of their licenser; items like any N, in addition, appear to require a c-commanding and overt licenser. It is argued that the relevant restriction refers to precedence, not e-command, and that it is
Acquaviva, Paolo
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The syntax of negative polarity items in Syrian Arabic based on the dialect of Deir Ezzor [PDF]
, 2022 Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) are pervasive among languages. Cross-linguistic examination of NPIs continues to shed light on the complexity of this phenomenon.
Alftayeh, Mohammed Saleh
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Licensing German negative polarity items in LTAG [PDF]
Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammar and Related Formalisms - TAGRF '06, 2006 Our paper aims at capturing the distribution of negative polarity items (NPIs) within lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (LTAG). The condition under which an NPI can occur in a sentence is for it to be in the scope of a negation with no quantifiers scopally intervening.
Lichte, Timm, Kallmeyer, Laura
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