Polarity: polarity
| Values: | Neg | Pos |
Polarity indicates negation or affirmation on grammatical items.
In English, it pertains to only the following function words:
- the particle not receives
Polarity=Neg - the coordinating conjunction nor receives
Polarity=Neg, as does neither when coupled with nor - the interjection no receives
Polarity=Neg - the interjection yes receives
Polarity=Pos
Lexical (as opposed to grammatical) items that trigger negative polarity, e.g. lack, doubt, hardly, do not receive the feature. Neither do negative prefixes (on adjectives: wise – unwise, probable – improbable), as the availability of such prefixes depends on the lexical stem.
Other function words conveying negation are pro-forms (tagged as DET, PRON, or ADV)
and should therefore receive PronType=Neg (not Polarity).
Pos: positive, affirmative
Examples
- [en] yes
Neg: negative
Examples
- [en] not
- [en] nor
- [en] no as in no, I don’t think so; but not as in we have no bananas
Polarity in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [el] [en] [es] [et] [fi] [fr] [ga] [gd] [gub] [hy] [jaa] [ky] [pcm] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tn] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urj] [xcl]