Negative: whether the word can be or is negated
Negativeness is typically a feature of verbs, adjectives, sometimes also adverbs and nouns in languages that negate using bound morphemes. For instance, all Czech verbs and adjectives can be negated using the prefix ne-. In English, verbs are negated using the particle not and adjectives are also negated using prefixes, although the process is less productive than in Czech (wise – unwise, probable – improbable).
Note that Negative=Neg is not the same thing as
PronType=Neg. For pronouns and other pronominal parts of speech
there is no such binary opposition as for verbs and adjectives. (There
is no such thing as “affirmative pronoun”.)
The negativeness feature could be also used to distinguish response interjections yes and no.
Pos: positive, affirmative
Examples
- [cs] přišel “he came”
Neg: negative
Examples
- [cs] nepřišel “he did not come”
Negative in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]