Lines Matching refs:Negative
1334 "The nuclear syllable is spoken more loudly than the others and has a characteristic change of pitch. The changes of pitch most commonly encountered in English are the rising pitch and the falling pitch, although the fall-rising pitch and/or the rise-falling pitch are sometimes used. In this opposition between falling and rising pitch, which plays a larger role in English than in most other languages, falling pitch conveys certainty and rising pitch uncertainty. This can have a crucial impact on meaning, specifically in relation to polarity, the positive?negative opposition; thus, falling pitch means \"polarity known\", while rising pitch means \"polarity unknown\". This underlies the rising pitch of yes/no questions. For example:\n" +
1346 "At the same time, the language has become more analytic, and has developed features such as modal verbs and word order as rich resources for conveying meaning. Auxiliary verbs mark constructions such as questions, negative polarity, the passive voice and progressive tenses.\n" +
3321 " with negative sign bit. Generally, values that would\n" +
3322 " appear as negative after accounting for overhead and alignment\n" +
3634 " not sign-extend. (This also makes checking for negative numbers\n" +
3908 " cannot release space back to the system when given negative\n" +
3910 " a hand-crafted MORECORE function that cannot handle negative arguments.\n" +
4116 " with negative arguments are interpreted as requests for huge amounts\n" +
4428 " If possible, gives memory back to the system (via negative\n" +
4446 " On systems that do not support \"negative sbrks\", it will always\n" +
6306 " negative. Note that since mmap takes size_t arg, it may succeed\n" +
6575 " to the system (via negative arguments to sbrk) if there is unused\n" +
8127 " * MORECORE need not handle negative arguments -- it may instead\n" +
8128 " just return MORECORE_FAILURE when given negative arguments.\n" +
8129 " Negative arguments are always multiples of pagesize. MORECORE\n" +
8130 " must not misinterpret negative args as large positive unsigned\n" +
8136 " actually be size_t, because sbrk supports negative args, so it is\n" +
