Lexical item associated with affirmation or negation
In linguistics, a polarity item is a lexical item that is associated with affirmation or negation. An affirmation is a positive polarity item, abbreviated PPI or AFF. A negation is a negative polarity item, abbreviated NPI or NEG.
The linguistic environment in which a polarity item appears is a licensing context. In the simplest case, an affirmative statement provides a licensing context for a PPI, while negation provides a licensing context for an NPI. However, there are many complications, and not all polarity items of a particular type have the same licensing contexts.
linguistics, a polarityitem is a lexical item that is associated with affirmation or negation. An affirmation is a positive polarityitem, abbreviated...
the international system Polarity of gender, when a word takes the opposite grammatical gender than expected Polarityitem, in linguistics, the sensitiveness...
property that licenses polarityitems. Indeed, "Nobody saw anything" is downward entailing and admits the negative polarityitem anything, while *"I saw...
evidence provided by Robin Lakoff, who used, in part, strong/strict polarityitems as proof. Laurence R. Horn and Robin Lakoff have written on the theory...
negation (NEG) are ways in which grammar encodes positive and negative polarity into verb phrases, clauses, or other utterances. An affirmative (positive)...
any more (also spelled anymore) is typically a negative/interrogative polarityitem used in negative, interrogative, or hypothetical contexts, speakers...
a word or morpheme that specifies the meaning of a quantifier; see Polarityitem All pages with titles containing Restriction Restricted (disambiguation)...
National pollutant inventory National Provider Identifier Negative polarityitem, grammatical form used during negation New Politics Initiative New product...
ought with do-support. As a modal auxiliary verb, need is a negative polarityitem, appearing in negative contexts and other contexts that do not affirm...
encode negation. Minimizers are usually treated as a kind of negative polarityitem, though this point of view has been challenged. Under negation, the...
interpretations. Particular factors include focus, disjunction, questions, and polarityitems. A major theoretical issue is whether exhaustivity is a semantic entailment...
index, to prioritize projects Payment protection insurance Positive polarityitem Producer price index Pulse Polio, immunisation campaign in India Port...
expressions that can license a negative polarityitem, such as any. Monotone increasing GQs do not license negative polarityitems. Good: No boy has any money. Bad:...
form of lexical gap Eggcorn False cognate Fossilization (linguistics) Polarityitem Words not attested or very rare in English usage. Jocular or facetious...
petition. (locative) Free choice inference Linguistic modality Negative polarityitem LeGrand, Jean (1975). Or and Any: The semantics and syntax of two logical...
specific grammatical moods Grammatical conjugation Grammatical modality Polarityitem Nominal TAM Palmer, F. R., Mood and Modality, Cambridge Univ. Press...
negative concord. The negated constituent is marked with a negative-polarityitem (e.g. κανένας 'any, anybody/nobody', τίποτα 'anything/nothing', πουθενά...
In linguistics, polarity of gender is when a lexical item takes the opposite grammatical gender than expected. The phenomenon is widespread in Afroasiatic...
languages. Languages without negative concord typically have negative polarityitems that are used in place of additional negatives when another negating...
commonly are heard as /jə/ and /jɪ/. Anymore is used as a positive polarityitem, e.g. "Joey's hoagies taste different anymore." This sense of anymore...
anymore". While in Standard English anymore must be used as a negative polarityitem (NPI), some speakers in Pittsburgh and throughout the Midland area do...
attitudinal but volatile in polarity and often out of known vocabulary.) A basic task in sentiment analysis is classifying the polarity of a given text at the...
the changes in polarityitems and in quantifiers. Alice ter Meulen, Dutch linguist, logician, and philosopher of language negative polarity "THE SEMANTICS...
and polarity, in particular the so-called Zwarts hierarchy of polarityitems. This hierarchy recognizes three types of polarityitems: weak items, acceptable...
University of Groningen in 1997. The title of her thesis is The landscape of polarityitems, published with Groningen Dissertations in Linguistics (GRODIL) 18....
shell's "polarity" (e.g. the current live shell becomes blank). An injection of adrenaline, which allows the user to steal one of the opponent's items, using...