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Polarity sensitivity and evaluation order in type-logical grammar

Year: 2004

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: We present a novel, type-logical analysis of polarity sensitivity: how negative polarity items (like any and ever) or positive ones (like some) are licensed or prohibited. It takes not just scopal relations but also linear order into account, using the programming-language notions of delimited continuations and evaluation order, respectively. It thus achieves greater empirical coverage than previous proposals.

Source: Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL)

DOI: 10.3115/1613984.1614017

Author: Chung-chieh Shan

Institution: Harvard University

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: Linguistic Side Effects