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Assessing the Role of Experimental Evidence for Interface Judgment: Licensing of Negative Polarity Items, Scalar Readings, and Focus [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This paper reviews a series of experimental studies that address what we call “interface judgment,” which is the complex judgment involving integration from multiple levels of grammatical representation such as the syntax-semantics and prosody-semantics ...
Anastasia Giannakidou, Urtzi Etxeberria
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Novel ERP Evidence for Processing Differences Between Negative and Positive Polarity Items in German [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 One unresolved question about polarity sensitivity in theoretical linguistics concerns whether and to what extent negative and positive polarity items are parallel.
Mingya Liu +3 more
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Global positive polarity items and obligatory exhaustivity [PDF]
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014 I argue for a distinction between two types of positive polarity items (PPIs) which has not been recognized so far. While for some PPIs, anti-licensing is a strictly local phenomenon, for other PPIs anti-licensing should be stated as a global condition.
Benjamin Spector
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Negative Polarity Items in Telugu
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2019 The paper presents a unified account of licensing conditions of Negative Polarity Items (NPI) in Telugu. Based on the distribution of NPIs in complex clauses, we state that negation c-commanding NPI at the base-generated. Consequently, features checking
Mayuri J. DILIP, Rajesh KUMAR
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Rasch analysis and differential item functioning of the marital happiness scale in Oman [PDF]
Scientific ReportsMarital happiness is an important variable in family life in Oman as a coherent Muslim society. Recent societal attention to marital happiness and divorce rates in Oman underpins the need for a valid and reliable instrument to precisely measure the ...
Ehab M. N. Omara +3 more
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(Negative) Polarity Items in Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance Languages
Languages, 2022 This paper identifies the set of properties that polarity items (PI), negative polarity items (NPI) and negative concord items (NCI) satisfy in Catalan, Aragonese, Benasquese and Occitan. It shows that in Catalan, gaire ‘much, many’ is a PI, pas ‘at all’
M.Teresa Espinal, Ares Llop
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Concessive scalar particles: Symmetric vs. non-symmetric alternatives. The case of Spanish siquiera
Glossa, 2023 Polarity items have been analyzed as existential quantifiers that introduce alternatives into the semantic derivation (Krifka 1991; 1995; Kratzer & Shimoyama 2002; Chierchia 2013).
Elizabeth Heredia Murillo +1 more
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Scalar Modifiers of Quantifier Phrases
Glossa, 2022 This paper analyzes the syntax and compositional semantics of scalar modifiers of quantifier phrases in expressions like almost every student, absolutely every student and nowhere near every student.
Chris Collins
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Polarity Items in Basque [PDF]
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2021 AbstractThis paper presents the results of an experimental investigation that looks into the acceptability and interpretation judgements that Basque native speakers give to sentences with multiplei-/bat ereindefinites in declarative sentences. It is argued that Basquei-/bat ereindefinites are Polarity Items (PIs) rather than Negative Concord Items ...
Etxeberria, Urtzi +3 more
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Exclamative Wh-Phrases as Positive Polarity Items
Catalan 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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