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Negative Polarity Items

2019
AbstractThis chapter presents an overview of the experimental investigations on Negative Polarity Items (NPIs). NPIs are grammatically licensed under a set of complex semantic, syntactic and pragmatic conditions. The linguistic complexity of NPI licensing makes it a rich empirical domain for investigating the cognitive architecture of language ...
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EvenNegative Polarity Items andOnlyNegative Polarity Items

2013
AbstractChapter 3 presents the main thesis of the book: Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) activate obligatorily the alternatives that ordinary indefinites activate optionally (i.e. subject to relevance). Two classes of NPIs are discussed: emphatic (minimizers, even-one/some NPIs) and non emphatic (ever, NP-any, Italian alcun).
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Strong vs weak Negative Polarity Items

2022
AbstractThis chapter discusses the distinction between weak and strong NPIs, arguing that only a modified version of the approaches by Chierchia (2006, 2013) and Gajewski (2002, 2011) can properly account for this distinction: exhaustification of strong NPIs takes place in the syntax; exhaustification of weak NPIs in pragmatics.
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Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items

2001
Perspectives on Negation and Polarity Items contains a selection of papers on the semantics, acquisition and licensing behavior of negation. Negation, being one of the prevalent features of any human language, has many facets of interest to linguists, psychologists and philosophers alike. In recent years, much attention has been paid to the complicated
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Direct and parasitic polarity item licensing

The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 2002
Dutch has a peculiar polarity item, referred to hereinafteras 'polar-heel' – a hitherto largely undiscussed incarnation of the adjective/quantifier heel 'whole'. This paper will show that polar-heel can be licensed in either of two ways: via direct licensing or via parasitic licensing.
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Integrative oncology: Addressing the global challenges of cancer prevention and treatment

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
Jun J Mao,, Msce, Lorenzo Cohen, Karen M Mustian   +2 more
exaly  

Complement anaphora and negative polarity items

2019
Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung, Vol 11 (2007): Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung ...
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Acquisition of negative polarity items

First Language, 1994
Charlotte Koster, Sjoukje Van Der Wal
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Polarity Items

2006
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Obesity and adverse breast cancer risk and outcome: Mechanistic insights and strategies for intervention

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2017
Cynthia Morata-Tarifa, Joyce M Slingerland   +1 more
exaly