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Processing Sentences With Multiple Negations: Grammatical Structures That Are Perceived as Unacceptable

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
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

open access: yesActa Linguistica Academica, 2018
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

On negation in yes/no questions in Serbo-Croatian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
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'

open access: yesGlossa Psycholinguistics, 2023
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]

open access: yes, 2008
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]

open access: yes, 2008
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

open access: yesGlossa, 2016
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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An efficient Map Reduce-Based Hybrid NBC-TFIDF algorithm to mine the public sentiment on diabetes mellitus – A big data approach

open access: yesJournal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences, 2021
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

open access: yes, 2020
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

open access: yesCatalan Journal of Linguistics, 2008
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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