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Negative Polarity Items

2019
AbstractThis chapter presents an overview of the experimental investigations on Negative Polarity Items (NPIs). NPIs are grammatically licensed under a set of complex semantic, syntactic and pragmatic conditions. The linguistic complexity of NPI licensing makes it a rich empirical domain for investigating the cognitive architecture of language ...
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Use-conditional licensing of strong negative polarity items

2021
Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol.
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EvenNegative Polarity Items andOnlyNegative Polarity Items

2013
AbstractChapter 3 presents the main thesis of the book: Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) activate obligatorily the alternatives that ordinary indefinites activate optionally (i.e. subject to relevance). Two classes of NPIs are discussed: emphatic (minimizers, even-one/some NPIs) and non emphatic (ever, NP-any, Italian alcun).
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Antecedents‐contained Deletion in Negative Polarity Items

Syntax, 2000
(1) a. That boy won’t do a damn thing I ask him to. b. Abby doesn’t have to read anything we did when we were young. c. Ben rarely grants an interview to a single reporter who wants him to. d. Jack wasn’t able to get an interview with a single person you were. e. The suspect didn’t answer a single question he was required to.
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Negative polarity items in English and Korean

Language Sciences, 1996
Abstract In a unified account of negative polarity and free choice expressed by amu/any or wh-indefinites in Korean and English, this paper argues that the notion of concession by arbitrary or disjunctive choice (based on indefiniteness) is crucial.
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Negative Entailment, Positive Implicature and Polarity Items

2017
In this paper, I argue that pragmatics plays a role in the (anti-)licensing of polarity items in addition to semantic notions such as downward monotonicity and anti-additivity. In the case of positive polarity items (PPIs), I argue that they can co-occur with the anti-additive quantifier no N if intonation or enriched context makes it a contrastive ...
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Systemic therapy for hormone receptor‐positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2‐negative early stage and metastatic breast cancer

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2023
Laura A Huppert, Hope S Rugo
exaly  

Acquisition of negative polarity items

First Language, 1994
Charlotte Koster, Sjoukje Van Der Wal
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Apical–basal polarity and the control of epithelial form and function

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2022
Clare E Buckley, Daniel St Johnston
exaly  

Hebrew negative polarity Items – šum and af

2008
In this paper I am going to examine two negative polarity determiners in Hebrew um and af which are analogous to English any. I show that though, like any, they are licensed in negative environments but not in affirmative ones, they have distributional properties which distinguish them from any. I then explore the semantics of um and af and show that
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