Viewing tag Licensing
Number of test suites
10
Average performance
68.80%
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Test suites tagged with Licensing
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Negative Polarity Licensing (any; with object relative clause)
- The words any and ever, in their most common uses, are "negative polarity items' (NPIs): they can only be used in an appropriate syntactic-semantic environment---to a first approximation, in the scope of negation. For example, the determiner "no" can license NPIs, but its NP has to structurally command the NPI. Some sentences with NPIs may be ungrammatical, even if they include a negative determiner earlier in the sentence, because "no" is embedded inside a modifier of the main-clause subject and thus does not command the NPI.
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Negative Polarity Licensing (ever; with object relative clause)
- The words any and ever, in their most common uses, are "negative polarity items' (NPIs): they can only be used in an appropriate syntactic-semantic environment---to a first approximation, in the scope of negation. For example, the determiner "no" can license NPIs, but its NP has to structurally command the NPI. Some sentences with NPIs may be ungrammatical, even if they include a negative determiner earlier in the sentence, because "no" is embedded inside a modifier of the main-clause subject and thus does not command the NPI.
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Negative Polarity Licensing (any; with subject relative clause)
- The words any and ever, in their most common uses, are "negative polarity items' (NPIs): they can only be used in an appropriate syntactic-semantic environment---to a first approximation, in the scope of negation. For example, the determiner "no" can license NPIs, but its NP has to structurally command the NPI. Some sentences with NPIs may be ungrammatical, even if they include a negative determiner earlier in the sentence, because "no" is embedded inside a modifier of the main-clause subject and thus does not command the NPI.
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Negative Polarity Licensing (ever; with subject relative clause)
- The words any and ever, in their most common uses, are "negative polarity items' (NPIs): they can only be used in an appropriate syntactic-semantic environment---to a first approximation, in the scope of negation. For example, the determiner "no" can license NPIs, but its NP has to structurally command the NPI. Some sentences with NPIs may be ungrammatical, even if they include a negative determiner earlier in the sentence, because "no" is embedded inside a modifier of the main-clause subject and thus does not command the NPI.
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Reflexive Number Agreement (feminine; with object relative clause)
- The noun phrase that a reflexive pronoun ("herself", "himself", "themselves") corefers with must command it in a sense similar to that relevant for negative-polarity items. In these test suites, the reflexive pronoun ending the sentence can only corefer to the subject of the sentence, with which it must agree in number: a singular subject requires a singular reflexive, and a plural subject requires a plural reflexive.
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Reflexive Number Agreement (masculine; with object relative clause)
- The noun phrase that a reflexive pronoun ("herself", "himself", "themselves") corefers with must command it in a sense similar to that relevant for negative-polarity items. In these test suites, the reflexive pronoun ending the sentence can only corefer to the subject of the sentence, with which it must agree in number: a singular subject requires a singular reflexive, and a plural subject requires a plural reflexive.
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Reflexive Number Agreement (feminine; with prepositional phrase)
- The noun phrase that a reflexive pronoun ("herself", "himself", "themselves") corefers with must command it in a sense similar to that relevant for negative-polarity items. In these test suites, the reflexive pronoun ending the sentence can only corefer to the subject of the sentence, with which it must agree in number: a singular subject requires a singular reflexive, and a plural subject requires a plural reflexive.
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Reflexive Number Agreement (masculine; with prepositional phrase)
- The noun phrase that a reflexive pronoun ("herself", "himself", "themselves") corefers with must command it in a sense similar to that relevant for negative-polarity items. In these test suites, the reflexive pronoun ending the sentence can only corefer to the subject of the sentence, with which it must agree in number: a singular subject requires a singular reflexive, and a plural subject requires a plural reflexive.
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Reflexive Number Agreement (feminine; with subject relative clause)
- The noun phrase that a reflexive pronoun ("herself", "himself", "themselves") corefers with must command it in a sense similar to that relevant for negative-polarity items. In these test suites, the reflexive pronoun ending the sentence can only corefer to the subject of the sentence, with which it must agree in number: a singular subject requires a singular reflexive, and a plural subject requires a plural reflexive.
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Reflexive Number Agreement (masculine; with subject relative clause)
- The noun phrase that a reflexive pronoun ("herself", "himself", "themselves") corefers with must command it in a sense similar to that relevant for negative-polarity items. In these test suites, the reflexive pronoun ending the sentence can only corefer to the subject of the sentence, with which it must agree in number: a singular subject requires a singular reflexive, and a plural subject requires a plural reflexive.