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Determining the Types of Contrasts: The Influences of Prosody on Pragmatic Inferences

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
This study explores the issues involving pragmatic inferences with prosodic cues. Although there is a well-established literature from multiple languages demonstrating how different pragmatic inferences can be applied to the same syntactic structure, few
I-Hsuan Chen   +2 more
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On the Grammaticalization of Negative Polarity Items

open access: yesAnnual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1994
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session Dedicated to the Contributions of Charles J. Fillmore (1994)
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Comment Text Orientation Identification Method Based on Evaluation Modification Distribution Difference [PDF]

open access: yesJisuanji gongcheng, 2016
In text orientation classification,there is a problem of adjunct words’ polarity misjudgment and missing hidden view caused by unknown emotional direction.This paper proposes an orientation identification method based on evaluation modification ...
FENG Xupeng,MA Zhen,XIE Bo,LIU Lijun,HUANG Qingsong
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Negative sensitive items in Turkish: Negative polarity or negative concord?

open access: yesRumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2020
This paper is concerned with the nature of negative sensitive items such as hiçkimse ‘no one’ and asla ‘never’ in Turkish. It is well attested in previous studies that these negative sensitive elements require the obligatory presence of sentential negation or some other licensor in the structure.
Görgülü, Emrah, Görgülü, Emrah
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Bipolar Items

open access: yesTopics in Linguistics, 2016
This article asserts that the Japanese wide-scope mo ‘even’ in simple sentences are bipolar items (BPIs) antilicensed or forbidden by negation and licensed in a non-monotonic (NM) environment.
Nishiguchi Sumiyo
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A Question of Case

open access: yesNordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004
In this paper I investigate a seemingly optional variation between accusative and partitive case in Finnish in yes/no questions and certain kinds of negative contexts.
Elsi Kaiser
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Licensing german negative polarity items in LTAG [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
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 ...
Lichte, Timm, Kallmeyer, Laura
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Negative Dependencies in Turkish

open access: yesLanguages
In this paper, we provide an overview of negative dependencies in Turkish. The first are elements such as hiçkimse, which sometimes seem to mean ‘anybody’ and sometimes ‘nobody’.
Beste Kamali, Hedde Zeijlstra
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Emotion to forecast a recession: A bilingual lexical and sentiment analysis of the un and IMF world economy reports for 2019 [PDF]

open access: yesIbérica, 2021
The present work carries out a discursive analysis of two 2019 institutional reports on the world’s economy and their Spanish translations, and endeavours to determine the role that emotion plays in the way each text is lexically verbalized.
María Ángeles Orts Llopis
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When negation is not negation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In this paper I will discuss the formation of different types of yes/no questions in Serbian (examples in (1)), focusing on the syntactically and semantically puzzling example (1d), which involves the negative auxiliary inversion.
Milicevic, Nataša
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