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A Comparison of the Utterance Patterns of English Negative Polarity Items : Focused on Subjects and Objects

The British and American Language and Literature Association of Korea
This study investigated the speech acts of Korean adolescents, focusing on the English negative polarity item(NPI) ‘any’, which, unlike Korean, exhibits subject-object asymmetry.
Bokyeong Kim
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Strong vs weak Negative Polarity Items

2022
AbstractThis chapter discusses the distinction between weak and strong NPIs, arguing that only a modified version of the approaches by Chierchia (2006, 2013) and Gajewski (2002, 2011) can properly account for this distinction: exhaustification of strong NPIs takes place in the syntax; exhaustification of weak NPIs in pragmatics.
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The processing of negative polarity items in Turkish-German bilinguals

, 2019
This study investigates the processing of Turkish negative polarity items (NPIs) using a self-paced reading experiment with end-of-sentence acceptability judgements. Our participants included adult Turkish monolinguals, as well as Turkish-German early (i.
Seçkin Arslan, Sol Lago, C. Felser, Aydogan Yanilmaz, J. E. Drury   +4 more
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NEG-raising and long-distance licensing of negative polarity items

, 2017
J. Hoeksema
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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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Dimensions of variation in sentence comprehension: a case study on understating negative polarity items in German

Linguistische Berichte, 2023
Juliane Schwab, Jutta L. Mueller, Mingya Liu   +2 more
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The Acquisition of Syntactic Structures for Children from International Marriages: Focused on Negative Polarity Items

The British and American Language and Literature Association of Korea, 2022
Bokyeong Kim
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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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‘Few’, ‘A Few’, ‘Only’: Negative Quantifier Noun Phases and Negative Polarity Items – The Horn-Atlas Debate 1991–2018

, 2021
J. Atlas
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