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npi
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Negative Polarity Item, a word that requires the sentence to be negated.
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If you're still anxious, or just curious, you should take the narcissistic personality inventory (NPI).
Because water moves, and has immediate local context unlike carbon, how long do you take NPI "credit" for?
A few miles away, in another gloomy former warehouse, the group provides crucial funding to Nurture Project International (NPI), a small charity that gives pre- and post-natal support to Kurdish mothers at the Kalochori camp.
Unless you are polluting, or attempting to compensate for unsustainable abstraction, who then is NPI on water for?
The Freedom pension will be invested in the funds offered by pension providers NPI and Friends Provident, both of which have a strong track record in ethical in vesting.
He reports that his score on the narcissistic personality inventory (NPI) is surprisingly low.
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But universals do not license NPIs in their nuclear scope (the predicate expression), which is an upward entailing context (if everyone who knows logic is a vegan, everyone who knows logic is a vegetarian).
As (17e) shows, universals like all or every license NPIs in their restrictor (the relative clause), which is a downward entailing context (if everyone who knows logic is a vegetarian, everyone who knows classical logic is a vegetarian).
On the other hand, if I haven't eaten fruit, I haven't eaten kumquats, but not necessarily vice versa; this is a downward entailing (monotone decreasing) environment.[10] It is just in the latter case that NPIs are licensed.
This contrast indicates the insufficiency of an account of polarity licensing that simply marks a given lexical item as favorable to the occurrence of NPIs within its scope.
Such terms with the force of negation included comparatives, restrictors of universals, and only, all environments licensing NPIs in English.
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