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The lexical and grammatical sources of neg-raising inferences
We investigate neg(ation)-raising inferences, wherein negation on a predicate can be interpreted as though in that predicate’s subordinate clause. To do this, we collect a largescale dataset of neg-raising judgments for effectively all English clause-embedding verbs and develop a model to jointly induce the semantic types of verbs and their subordinate clauses and the relationship of these types to neg-raising inferences. We find that some neg-raising inferences are attributable to properties of particular predicates, while others are attributable to subordinate clause structure.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1748969
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10176035
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics
- Volume:
- 3
- Issue:
- 1
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 220-233
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.7275/yts0-q989
