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On the Acquisition of Polarity Items: 11- to 12-Year-Olds' Comprehension of German NPIs and PPIs. [PDF]
Schwab J, Liu M, Mueller JL.
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Negative sensitive items and the discourse-configurational nature of Japanese
We take up three Negative Sensitive Items (NSIs) in Japanese, Wh-MO plain negative indefinites, exceptive XP-sika, and certain minimizing indefinites, such as rokuna N (‘any decent N’).
Hedde Zeijlstra +2 more
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Polarity Items in before-clauses [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to propose a re-formulation of the uniform definition Beaver and Condoravdi (2003) proposed to account for the meaning of before and after, such that it can account also for the polarity items licensing behavior of the two temporal connectives.
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Is there any negative polarity in romanian?
I discuss the distribution and interpretation of the Romanian determiner vreun and analyze it as a special polarity item. I put forth the generalizations that capture its peculiar distribution: on the one hand, vreun has the behavior of a typical ...
Anamaria Fălăuş
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Rhetorical questions, relevance and scales
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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Instruments of Active, Creative, Effective and Fun learning (PAKEM) were created to measure teachers' knowledge about the PAKEM’s concept as a form of learning strategies implemented in teaching in schools and madrasahs.
Salma Hayati +1 more
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Rhetorical questions or rhetorical uses of questions?
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 ...
Džemal Špago
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Subjunctive, Habituality and Negative Polarity Items
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Sentiment analysis measures user experience on social media. With the emergence of pre-trained models, text classification tasks have become homogeneous, without a significant improvement in accuracy.
Zhenyu Li, Zongfeng Zou
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Multiple Negation in Asian Englishes: A Corpus-Based Analysis
Multiple negation is a linguistic structure that entails the coexistence of two or more negative polarity items within the same clause (e.g., She does not have nothing) to create an emphatic meaning. Although the occurrence of this linguistic variant has
María Victoria Rodríguez-Lázaro
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