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The Use of Context in the Analysis of Negative Concord and N-words

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Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 1999)

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We examine proposals on Negative Concord in Romance, focussing on the use of context in building an explanation, what information is assigned to it, and what is kept in the characterisation of items.

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  1. ITC - Trento I, UK

    L. M. Tovena

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  1. University of Trento, DISA, 5, via Inama, I-38050, Trento, Italy

    Paolo Bouquet  & Massimo Benerecetti  & 

  2. IRST-ITC, Pante di Povo, I-38050, Trento, Italy

    Luciano Serafini

  3. University Paris VI, LIP6 4, Place Jussieu, F-75252, Paris Cedex 05, France

    Patrick Brézillon

  4. University of Trento, 26, via Verdi, I-38050, Trento, Italy

    Francesca Castellani

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Tovena, L.M. (1999). The Use of Context in the Analysis of Negative Concord and N-words. In: Bouquet, P., Benerecetti, M., Serafini, L., Brézillon, P., Castellani, F. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1688. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48315-2_53

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