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The processing of negative polarity items in Turkish-German bilinguals
, 2019 This study investigates the processing of Turkish negative polarity items (NPIs) using a self-paced reading experiment with end-of-sentence acceptability judgements. Our participants included adult Turkish monolinguals, as well as Turkish-German early (i.
Seçkin Arslan +4 more
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Preverbs, Postpositions and Indefinite Pronouns in Hittite
Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2017 The paper deals with the syntax of preverbs, postpositions (including postpositional phrases) and existential quantifiers/ negative polarity items in Hittite within the Minimalist Program. Their in-situ and ex-situ positions are determined.
Andrej Sideltsev
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Backward licensing of Negative Polarity Items in Dutch: An ERP investigation
Journal of Neurolinguistics, 2019 This Event-related Potential (ERP) study examines the licensing of NPIs in Dutch in a grammatical configuration where the NPI linearly precedes its licensor.
Leticia Pablos +3 more
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Não temos o que perder. Negação na forma e significado da construção terPRON INF
Linguística, 2019 The paper offers a cognitive linguistic analysis of the construction terPRON INF (as in Não têm onde construir o hospital). The construction is shown to have a preference for negative uses, reminiscent of negative polarity items (NPIs).
Konrad Szczesniak
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 The empirical study of language is a young field in contemporary linguistics. This being the case, and following a natural development process, the field is currently at a stage where different research methods and experimental approaches are being put ...
Leticia Pablos +4 more
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Rhetorical questions, relevance and scales
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 1998 Rhetorical questions, and other varieties of pragmatically conditioned questions, present a challenge for a purely truth-conditional theory of the interpretation of interrogatives.
Gutiérrez Rexach, Javier
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IEEE Access, 2020 Mobile eCommerce applications are increasingly becoming popular for shopping online in Africa, since the means of accessing the Internet is mostly through mobile devices.
Tolulope Olagunju +2 more
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Negative Polarity Items in Inverse Scope and Topicalized Clauses
, 2007 Negative polarity items are words or phrases usually associated with a negative\ud licenser, such as the word ever, licensed by don't, in I don't think that I've ever\ud been so surprised, In unmarked sentences, the negative licenser typically commands ...
D'Angio, Sara
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A Multilingual Database of Polarity Items
, 2015 This paper presents three electronic collections of polarity items: (i) negative polarity items in Romanian, (ii) negative polarity items in German, and (iii) positive polarity items in German.
Trawiński, Beata, Soehn, Jan-Philipp
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L1 and L2 reading of pragmatically licensed negative polarity items
This study investigates reading time (RT) in L1 English and L1 Spanish - L2 English reading of negative polarity items under two different licensing conditions (namely "no" and "only") and two experimental conditions ("grammatical" and "ungrammatical")
Grace deMeurisse, Edith Kaan
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