In this chapter, we discuss the distribution and lexical properties of common varieties of
negative polarity items (NPIs) and positive polarity items (PPIs). We establish first that NPIs …

A number of recent studies have argued that grammatical illusions can arise in the process
of completing linguistic dependencies, such that unlicensed material is temporarily treated …

The mission of cognitive neuroscience is to represent the interaction of cognitive science
and neuroscience: cognitive models of the mind guide a neuroscientific investigation of the …

Most previous studies on negation have generally only focused on sentential negation (not),
but the time course of processing negative meaning from different sources remains poorly …

This thesis investigates how prosodic phrasing influences listeners' interpretation of scopally
ambiguous wh-questions in Japanese. It focuses on sentences such as that in (1), in which …

Though negation is unique and central to human language, it has so far received little
attention in cognitive neuroscience. The goal of the present study was to investigate the …

This paper has two major goals. First, we want to critically assess the “universal free
choice”(UFCA) analysis as it has been formulated in Menéndez-Benito (2010) for Spanish …

Logic has been intertwined with the study of language and meaning since antiquity, and
such connections persist in present day research in linguistic theory (formal semantics) and …

Suitable for linguists and philosophers of language, this book provides a multidimensional
analysis for the lexical semantics of evaluative adverbs: nonfactive evaluative adverbs …

In a post hoc analysis, we investigate differences in event-related potentials of two studies
(Drenhaus et al., 2004, to appear; Saddy et al., 2004) by using the symbolic resonance …