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

Frontiers 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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Emotion to forecast a recession: A bilingual lexical and sentiment analysis of the un and IMF world economy reports for 2019 [PDF]

Ibérica, 2021
The present work carries out a discursive analysis of two 2019 institutional reports on the world’s economy and their Spanish translations, and endeavours to determine the role that emotion plays in the way each text is lexically verbalized.
María Ángeles Orts Llopis
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Quirky n-words in Polish: NPIs, Negative Qantifiers or neither?

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004
The present paper investigates the contexts in which the so-called n-words - the items which are taken to be Negative Polarity Items in Slavic languages - unexpectedly occur without a licensing negation marker on the verb.
Patrycja Jablonska
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Negative Dependencies in Turkish

Languages
In this paper, we provide an overview of negative dependencies in Turkish. The first are elements such as hiçkimse, which sometimes seem to mean ‘anybody’ and sometimes ‘nobody’.
Beste Kamali, Hedde Zeijlstra
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Distributionally constrained items in child language: the acquisition of superweak NPI shenme ‘a/some’ in Mandarin Chinese

Glossa, 2017
This paper presents new experimental results obtained from 88 Mandarin speaking children (2; 11 – 4; 09; M = 3; 11; SD = 0; 6; 44 girls) in their acquisition of shenme ‘a/some’, a prototypical superweak Negative Polarity Item (NPI) that survives in ...
Jing Lin
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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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Merged Ontology and SVM-Based Information Extraction and Recommendation System for Social Robots

IEEE Access, 2017
The recent technology of human voice capture and interpretation has spawned the social robot to convey information and to provide recommendations. This technology helps people obtain information about a particular topic after giving an oral query to a ...
Farman Ali, Daehan Kwak, Pervez Khan, Shaker Hassan A. Ei-Sappagh, S. M. Riazul Islam, Daeyoung Park, Kyung-Sup Kwak   +6 more
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A register approach to negative concord versus negative polarity items in English

Linguistics
Negative concord (NC) is used in many English varieties but usually considered ungrammatical in ‘standard’ contemporary English, where negative polarity items (NPIs) are used.
Rotter Stephanie, Liu Mingya
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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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The Diverse Landscape of Negative Polarity Items: On the Use of German NPIs as Experimental Diagnostics. [PDF]

J Psycholinguist Res, 2021
Schaebbicke K, Seeliger H, Repp S.
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