Polarity: whether the word can be or is negated
Polarity
Polarity is typically a feature of verbs, adjectives, sometimes also adverbs and nouns in languages that negate using bound morphemes.
In Bulgarian nouns, adjectives, attrubutive participles use bound morpheme не (with the exception of clear contrastive contexts) Verbs and transgressives, however, use the clitic не for negation.
The negativeness feature is used to distinguish response particles yes and no.
Pos: positive, affirmative
Examples
- човек / chovek “man”
- добър / dobar “good”
- разбралата жена / razbralata zhena “the woman that understood”
- вървя / varvya “I am walking”
- вървейки / varveyki “walking”
Neg: negative
Examples
- нечовек / nechovek “not a man”
- недобър / nedobar “not good”
- неразбралата жена / nerazbralata zhena “the woman that did not understand”
- не вървя / ne varvya “I am not walking”
- не вървейки / ne varveyki “not walking”
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]