linguistics, a polarity item is a lexical item that is associated with affirmation or negation. An affirmation is a positive polarity item, abbreviated...

the international system Polarity of gender, when a word takes the opposite grammatical gender than expected Polarity item, in linguistics, the sensitiveness...

property that licenses polarity items. Indeed, "Nobody saw anything" is downward entailing and admits the negative polarity item anything, while *"I saw...

evidence provided by Robin Lakoff, who used, in part, strong/strict polarity items as proof. Laurence R. Horn and Robin Lakoff have written on the theory...

negation (NEG) are ways in which grammar encodes positive and negative polarity into verb phrases, clauses, or other utterances. An affirmative (positive)...

any more (also spelled anymore) is typically a negative/interrogative polarity item used in negative, interrogative, or hypothetical contexts, speakers...

a word or morpheme that specifies the meaning of a quantifier; see Polarity item All pages with titles containing Restriction Restricted (disambiguation)...

encode negation. Minimizers are usually treated as a kind of negative polarity item, though this point of view has been challenged. Under negation, the...

entailment, allowing more cases of polarity item licensing to be explained. Downward entailment predicts that polarity items will be licensed in the scope...

ought with do-support. As a modal auxiliary verb, need is a negative polarity item, appearing in negative contexts and other contexts that do not affirm...

National pollutant inventory National Provider Identifier Negative polarity item, grammatical form used during negation New Politics Initiative New product...

form of lexical gap Eggcorn False cognate Fossilization (linguistics) Polarity item Words not attested or very rare in English usage. Jocular or facetious...

index, to prioritize projects Payment protection insurance Positive polarity item Producer price index Pulse Polio, immunisation campaign in India Port...

specific grammatical moods Grammatical conjugation Grammatical modality Polarity item Nominal TAM Palmer, F. R., Mood and Modality, Cambridge Univ. Press...

expressions that can license a negative polarity item, such as any. Monotone increasing GQs do not license negative polarity items. Good: No boy has any money. Bad:...

interpretations. Particular factors include focus, disjunction, questions, and polarity items. A major theoretical issue is whether exhaustivity is a semantic entailment...

negative concord. The negated constituent is marked with a negative-polarity item (e.g. κανένας 'any, anybody/nobody', τίποτα 'anything/nothing', πουθενά...

languages. Languages without negative concord typically have negative polarity items that are used in place of additional negatives when another negating...

In linguistics, polarity of gender is when a lexical item takes the opposite grammatical gender than expected. The phenomenon is widespread in Afroasiatic...

anymore". While in Standard English anymore must be used as a negative polarity item (NPI), some speakers in Pittsburgh and throughout the Midland area do...

commonly are heard as /jə/ and /jɪ/. Anymore is used as a positive polarity item, e.g. "Joey's hoagies taste different anymore." This sense of anymore...

logic -- Peirce's law -- Plural quantification -- Poisoning the well -- Polarity item -- Polish Logic -- Polish notation -- Politician's syllogism -- Polychotomous...

attitudinal but volatile in polarity and often out of known vocabulary.) A basic task in sentiment analysis is classifying the polarity of a given text at the...

University of Groningen in 1997. The title of her thesis is The landscape of polarity items, published with Groningen Dissertations in Linguistics (GRODIL) 18....

and polarity, in particular the so-called Zwarts hierarchy of polarity items. This hierarchy recognizes three types of polarity items: weak items, acceptable...

the changes in polarity items and in quantifiers. Alice ter Meulen, Dutch linguist, logician, and philosopher of language negative polarity "THE SEMANTICS...

petition. (locative) Free choice inference Linguistic modality Negative polarity item LeGrand, Jean (1975). Or and Any: The semantics and syntax of two logical...

following grammatical categories: mood, tense, person, number, and polarity item. Non-finite verb forms: infinitive, supine, impersonal verbs, and participle...

or inverse-parallel devices are connected in parallel but with their polarities reversed. One example is the TRIAC, which is comparable to two thyristors...

are: quantifier-quantifier, quantifier-pronoun, quantifier-negative polarity item. In instances where a negation has an indefinite article in its scope...