Spotting, collecting and documenting negative polarity items

Soehn, Jan-Philipp; Trawiński, Beata; Lichte, Timm

doi:10.1007/s11049-010-9117-x

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“…Lichte and Soehn (2007) use a corpus-based acquisition mechanism to identify NPIs, treating the relation between an NPI and its licensor as a collocational phenomenon and generating a list of candidate NPIs based on the ratio of the item's occurrences in contexts containing a potential licensor to the item's total number of occurrences in the corpus. In follow-up work, Soehn et al (2010) report on the creation of a database containing NPIs and PPIs from German and Romanian. The items in the database are described with respect to their own syntactic structure as well as their distribution relative to a set of potential licensing contexts.…”

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Frames, polarity and causation

Ruppenhofer¹,

Michaelis²

2016

Corpora

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A polarity-sensitive item (PSI), as traditionally defined, is an expression that is restricted to either an affirmative or negative context. PSIs like 'lift a finger' and 'all the time in the world' sub-serve discourse routines like understatement and emphasis. Lexical-semantic classes are increasingly invoked in descriptions of the properties of PSIs. Here, we use English corpus data and the tools of Frame Semantics (Fillmore, 1982(Fillmore, , 1985 to explore Israel's (2011) observation that the semantic role of a PSI determines how the expression fits into a contextually constructed scalar model. We focus on a class of exceptions implied by Israel's model: cases in which a given PSI displays two countervailing patterns of polarity sensitivity, with attendant differences in scalar entailments. We offer a set of case studies of polaritysensitive expressions -including verbs of attraction and aversion like 'can live without', monetary units like 'a red cent', comparative adjectives and time-span adverbials -that demonstrate that the interpretation of a given PSI in a given polar context is based on multiple factors. These factors include the speaker's perspective on and affective stance towards the described event, available inferences about causality and, perhaps most critically, particulars of the predication, including the verb or adjective's frame membership, the presence or absence of an ability modal like can, the grammatical construction used and the range of contingencies evoked by the utterance.

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Frames, polarity and causation

Ruppenhofer¹,

Michaelis²

2016

Corpora

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“…(1) Iyya mempe'-ki kaluku-e 1SG 1 climb-AGR 2 3 coconut-DEF 3 Negation, especially Negation Polarity Item (NPI), has been documented fairly well in some languages primarily English and Dutch (Soehn et al, 2010). But it is not the case in Buginese.…”

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Negation Markers in Buginese

Balla¹,

Rahman²

2023

JELL

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This study analyzed the expression of negation markers in Buginese. The study employed a descriptive qualitative method. The data for this study are some snippets of daily speech in Buginese Sinjai Dialect setting which we have verified as the native speakers. The results indicated that there are two main ways of expressing negation in Buginese which are negation marker dena' that can be used interchangeably with negation enna'. Negation dena'/enna' is used if the predicate is verbal, adjectival, or with prepositions. Another negation is tannia which is used in relative clause. Negation tannia is used if the predicate is nominal either object or subject. This study can contribute to provide references in Buginese negation as there are a few references in this specific topic.

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Spotting, collecting and documenting negative polarity items

Cited by 2 publications

References 18 publications

Frames, polarity and causation

Frames, polarity and causation

Negation Markers in Buginese

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