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Minimizer negative polarity items in non-negative contexts

Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 2021
Minimizer strong NPIs such as ˋˋlift a finger'' are known to be more restricted in their occurrence than weak NPIs like ˋˋever''. Sedivy 1990 points to contexts with a ˋˋnegative side message'' in which ˋˋlift a finger'' can occur but ˋˋever'' cannot.
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The Effectiveness of Personalized Movie Explanations : An Experiment Using Commercial Meta-data [PDF]

, 2008
Preprin
Masthoff, Judith, Tintarev, Nava
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Quirky n-words in Polish: NPIs, Negative Qantifiers or neither?

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004
The present paper investigates the contexts in which the so-called n-words - the items which are taken to be Negative Polarity Items in Slavic languages - unexpectedly occur without a licensing negation marker on the verb.
Patrycja Jablonska
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The OL-DAWE Model: Tweet Polarity Sentiment Analysis With Data Augmentation

IEEE Access, 2020
Introducing negative items into sentences can shift the polarity of emotional words and leads to misclassification. Therefore, dealing with the negative item is indispensable to the analysis of the polarity of tweets.
Wenhuan Wang, Bohan Li, Ding Feng, Anman Zhang, Shuo Wan   +4 more
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Distinct patterns of neural activity during memory formation of nonwords versus words [PDF]

, 2007
Research into the neural underpinnings of memory formation has focused on the encoding of familiar verbal information. Here, we address how the brain supports the encoding of novel information that does not have meaning.
Otten, LJ, Quayle, AH, Sveen, J
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Determining the Types of Contrasts: The Influences of Prosody on Pragmatic Inferences

Frontiers 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, Chu-Ren Huang, Stephen Politzer-Ahles   +2 more
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Comment Text Orientation Identification Method Based on Evaluation Modification Distribution Difference [PDF]

Jisuanji 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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Bipolar Items

Topics 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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Establishing the limits between polarity sensitivity, negative polarity and negative concord

Linguistic Typology
In this paper, by focussing on the behaviour of polarity elements from a variety of languages from different language families (namely, Basque, Hindi, English, Romanian, Spanish, Greek, Czech, and Russian) we investigate the relationship between polarity
Etxeberria Urtzi, Espinal M.Teresa, Tubau Susagna   +2 more
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Negative Dependencies in Turkish

Languages
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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