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Negative Polarity Items

Negative Polarity Items is a linguistic construct that refers to lexical items which are grammatically restricted to environments involving negation or other downward-entailing contexts, distinguishing them from freely distributable expressions.

224

Publications

18.9K

Citations

330

Authors

190

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

45

Variants

Npis

Parents

Publications

224

Negative information weighs more heavily on the brain: The negativity bias in evaluative categorizations.

Tiffany A. Ito, Jeff T. Larsen, N. Kyle Smith et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1998 · 1.3K citations

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Negative information weighs more heavily on the brain: The negativity bias in evaluative categorizations.

Tiffany A. Ito, Nancy K. R. Smith, John T. Cacioppo · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1998 · 1.2K citations

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Broaden Your Views: Implicatures of Domain Widening and the “Logicality” of Language

Gennaro Chierchia · Linguistic Inquiry · 2006 · 675 citations

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Negative polarity and grammatical representation

Marcia C. Linebarger · Linguistics and Philosophy · 1987 · 609 citations

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Positive Polarity – Negative Polarity

Anna Szabolcsi · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory · 2004 · 485 citations

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Authors

330

  1. AG
    Anastasia Giannakidou

    University of Chicago, United States

    11 publications · 1.2K citations

    11

    h-index

  2. JH
    Jack Hoeksema

    University of Groningen, Netherlands

    7 publications · 699 citations

    7

    h-index

  3. HZ
    Hedde Zeijlstra

    University of Göttingen, Germany

    5 publications · 231 citations

    5

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  4. HD
    Heiner Drenhaus

    Saarland University, Germany

    4 publications · 554 citations

    4

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  5. MI
    Michael Israel

    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

    3 publications · 584 citations

    3

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Institutions

190

  1. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    8 h-index

    12 publications

    1.1K citations

  2. University of Groningen

    Groningen, The Netherlands

    7 h-index

    9 publications

    953 citations

  3. New York University

    New York, United States

    7 h-index

    21 publications

    2.9K citations

  4. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    7 h-index

    11 publications

    688 citations

  5. Center for Applied Linguistics

    Washington D.C., United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    438 citations

  6. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    275 citations

  7. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    243 citations

  8. University of Potsdam

    Potsdam, Germany

    4 h-index

    10 publications

    1.3K citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Semantics

    14 publications · 1.3K citations

    13

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  2. Language

    10 publications · 1.1K citations

    10

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  3. Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory

    SALT · 8 publications · 558 citations

    8

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  4. Glossa a journal of general linguistics

    6 publications · 291 citations

    6

    h-index

  5. Lingua

    6 publications · 661 citations

    6

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