Polarity Property ( Concept )
http://purl.org/linguistics/gold/PolarityProperty
Thing
|_ Abstract
|_ Linguistic Property
|_ Morphosyntactic Property
|_ Polarity Property
Direct SubConcepts:
NegativePolarity PositivePolarity
Definition:
The property concerned with encoding the system of positive/negative contrastivity found in a language. The distinction between 'positive' and 'negative polarity' may be expressed syntactically, morphologically or lexically. [Crystal 1997: 297]
See Also:
Surrey Morphology Group - Polarity
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