Polarity: polarity
Polarity in Russian is a feature of verbs, adjectives, adverbs and nouns used to express negation. Negation in Russian is done both by using the bound morpheme не- and an independent negating particle (equivalent to English “not”). Words that can take the morpheme/particle of negation have the feature of negativeness.
It applies to verbs,
adjectives, sometimes also adverbs and
even nouns.
(Most nouns have just Polarity=Pos;
deverbative nouns can have also Polarity=Neg.)
Note that Polaritye=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”.)
Pos: positive, affirmative
Examples
- он пришёл “he came”
- разумный “wise”
- хорошо “nicely”
- приятие “acceptance”
Neg: negative
Examples
- он не пришёл “he did not come”
- неразумный “unwise”
- нехорошо “nastily”
- неприятие “non-acceptance, rejection”
Polarity in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [el] [es] [et] [fi] [fr] [ga] [gd] [gub] [hy] [jaa] [ky] [pcm] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urj]