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This investigation draws from research on negative polarity item (NPI) illusions in order to explore a new and interesting instance of misalignment observed for grammatical sentences containing two negative markers.
Iria de-Dios-Flores, Iria de-Dios-Flores
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A critical assessment of exhaustivity for Negative Polarity Items
In some recent works on negative polarity, exhaustivity is posited as the single defining property of all negative polarity item (NPI) and free choice item (FCI) paradigms.
A. Giannakidou
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On negation in yes/no questions in Serbo-Croatian [PDF]
The phenomenon discussed in this paper is the so-called expletive negation in negated yes/no questions in Serbo-Croatian. The term expletive negation seems, at this point to be a useful descriptive term for the phenomenon in question. One of the goals of
Milićević, N., Milicevic, Natasa
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Lexical variation in NPI illusions – A case study of German jemals 'ever' and so recht 'really'
The illusory licensing of negative polarity items has been an insightful phenomenon for accounts of human sentence processing, as its extreme selectivity has proven problematic to explain in terms of parsing principles that underlie the establishment of ...
Juliane Schwab, Test Frozen
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Ainda tem solução: uma proposta semântica [PDF]
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-graduação em LinguísticaEsta dissertação se insere no estudo da semântica das línguas naturais, sob a vertente formalista de condições de ...
Gritti, Letícia Lemos
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Intonation and discourse : biased questions [PDF]
This paper surveys a range of constructions in which prosody affects discourse function and discourse structure.We discuss English tag questions, negative polar questions, and what we call “focus” questions.
Asher, Nicholas, Reese, Brian
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Negative sensitive items and the discourse-configurational nature of Japanese
We take up three Negative Sensitive Items (NSIs) in Japanese, Wh-MO plain negative indefinites, exceptive XP-sika, and certain minimizing indefinites, such as rokuna N (‘any decent N’).
Hedde Zeijlstra +2 more
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The increase in the usage of internet and social media has enabled people exchange views, opinions and thoughts as never before. This exchange of data has paved the way for sentiment analysis.
J. Ramsingh, V. Bhuvaneswari
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Processing Negative Polarity Items in Korean: Implications from an ERP Study
We are grateful to the three anonymous reviewers of this journal for the helpful comments and suggestions. Usual disclaimers apply here, of course. This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research ...
Myung-Kwan Park +2 more
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Exclamative Wh-Phrases as Positive Polarity Items
This paper studies the island effects induced by negation in exclamative sentences. In order to explain this phenomenon, I focus on the interaction between exclamative wh-phrases and negation, showing that negation can appear in exclamative sentences ...
Raquel González Rodríguez
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