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Parasitic licensing of negative polarity items [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 2007
This paper proposes a new treatment of parasitically licensed negative polarity items, based on the idea that indefinite negative polarity items may optionally incorporate a negative feature from their licenser, and thus acquire the necessary features to in turn license a negative polarity item.
openaire   +2 more sources

Negative intensification in the spoken language of British adults and teenagers: A corpus-based study

open access: yesNJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2016
Intensification, a general device used by speakers to convey their message more clearly and to strengthen their position to it (Bolinger 1972), has been discussed widely in the literature.
Ignacio M. Palacios Martínez
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Validity and Reliability of Students Perceptions on OBE Approach in Malaysian VC Using Rasch Model

open access: yesJournal of Innovation in Educational and Cultural Research, 2021
This pilot study aims to produce empirical evidence regarding the validity and reliability of instrument of the perception of vocational college diploma students towards the Outcome Based Education (OBE) approach.
Shuhada Abdul Raof   +3 more
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The Hebrew adverbial bixlal

open access: yesEntrepalavras: Revista de Linguística do Departamento de Letras Vernáculas da Universidade Federal do Ceará, 2016
The Modern Hebrew adverbial bixlal (at all /any /actually/in fact /even /anyway /in general/ generally /altogether /in the first place) seems puzzling from a synchronic point of view since it functions both as a NPI lo..bixlal /bixlal lo (not…any/at all)
Ruti Bardenstein
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From Latin to Modern Italian: Some Notes on Negation

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
This article aims at investigating some diachronic aspects of the Italian negative system, considering a time span ranging from Old Latin to Modern Italian.
Matteo Greco
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Rhetorical questions or rhetorical uses of questions?

open access: yesExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2016
This paper aims to explore whether some rhetorical questions contain certain linguistic elements or forms which would differentiate them from answer-eliciting and action-eliciting questions, and thereby hint at their rhetorical nature even outside the ...
Špago Džemal
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Establishing the limits between polarity sensitivity, negative polarity and negative concord

open access: yesLinguistic Typology
In this paper, by focussing on the behaviour of polarity elements from a variety of languages from different language families (namely, Basque, Hindi, English, Romanian, Spanish, Greek, Czech, and Russian) we investigate the relationship between polarity
Etxeberria Urtzi   +2 more
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The OL-DAWE Model: Tweet Polarity Sentiment Analysis With Data Augmentation

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2020
Introducing negative items into sentences can shift the polarity of emotional words and leads to misclassification. Therefore, dealing with the negative item is indispensable to the analysis of the polarity of tweets.
Wenhuan Wang   +4 more
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Building a Calendar of Events Database by Analyzing Financial Spikes

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2021
An event is a piece of news that triggers a change in stock prices. Here, an event study is undertaken to capture the effect of abnormal returns due to an event. The event can affect the stock market in the long term or short term.
Prakash K. Aithal   +3 more
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Bipolar Items

open access: yesTopics in Linguistics, 2016
This article asserts that the Japanese wide-scope mo ‘even’ in simple sentences are bipolar items (BPIs) antilicensed or forbidden by negation and licensed in a non-monotonic (NM) environment.
Nishiguchi Sumiyo
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