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Negative Polarity Items, DPs and Phase Sliding
Hacettepe 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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Complement anaphora and negative polarity items
, 2019 Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 11 (2007): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung ...
Manfred Sailer
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A study of negative polarity items [PDF]
, 1994 departmental bulletin ...
Yoshida Takashi
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Argument Negative Polarity Items in Korean
The Journal of Studies in Language, 2010 최영식
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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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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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Evaluability: an alternative approach to polarity sensitivity [PDF]
, 2013 Based on Brandtler (2012), this paper argues that polarity items are sensitive to evaluability, a concept that refers to the possibility of accepting or rejecting an utterance as true in a communicative exchange.
Brandtler, Johan
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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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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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