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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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NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2016 Intensification, a general device used by speakers to convey their message more clearly and to strengthen their position to it (Bolinger 1972), has been discussed widely in the literature.
Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez
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Quantification and polarity: negative adverbial intensifiers ('never ever', 'not at all', etc.) in Hausa [PDF]
, 2009 Hausa has a typologically interesting but poorly understood set of quantifying time and degree adverbs—equivalent to English 'never ever', 'not at all', etc.—which behave as negative polarity items and enhance the pragmatic impact of a negative utterance
Jaggar, Philip J.
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The recent success of deep learning neural language models such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) has brought innovations to computational language research.
Unsub Shin, Eunkyung Yi, Sanghoun Song
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C-command constraints in German: A corpus-based investigation
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2022 Reinhart (1983) proposed that quantificational binding is subject to a surface c-command condition. Her claim has been widely accepted in the literature on the syntax-semantics interface.
Webelhuth Gert
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Fragment answers and double negation in strict negative concord languages [PDF]
, 2016 International audienceThis paper revisits the phenomenon of negative concord (NC) as an instance of polarity sensitivity. We shed light on a new set of data regarding n-words as fragment answers to negative questions and show that we find unexpected ...
Falaus, Anamaria, Nicolae, Andreea
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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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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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