- negative polarity Todd – In our current language system, the terms “light and dark”, and “Positive and Negative” polarity are being used interchangeably.
- 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.
- Negative polarity Examples
- I cannot find a negative polarity in your sentence.
- His negative polarity towards authority figures often got him into trouble at work.
- Negative Polarity Items (NPIs), for example the indenites any, kanenas (in Greek), quoi que ce soit (in French), minimizers (e.g. lift a nger), the adverb yet, etc...
- ..."excellent," or "satisfactory" which have a positive polarity, or it can take on fuzzy values like "poor" and "bad" which have a negative polarity.
- What does negative polarity mean with electricity? The pole with relatively more electrons is said to have negative polarity; the other is assigned positive polarity.
- Natural languages have two broad categories of polarity sensitive expressions: negative polarity items (NPIs) and positive polarity items (PPIs).
- ...that their distribution is significantly more complex; specifically,someone/something-type PPIs share properties with negative polarity items (NPIs).
- It has been recently shown that processing negative polarity action-related sentences modulates neural activity of premotor and motor cortices.
- At the base level, there are Black Subtle Forces that exist in the Negative Polarity that especially connect to the material earth elements and the force of Gravity.