Polarity: whether the word can be or is negated
| Values: | Neg | Pos |
In Czech, negation is mostly done using the bound morpheme ne-, and an independent negating particle (equivalent to English “not”) is rarely seen. Words that can take the morpheme of negation have the feature of polarity.
It applies to verbs, adjectives, sometimes also adverbs.
Note that Polarity=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”.)
Since UD release 2.15, Polarity is not used with nouns, although in principle every noun can be negated (plavec “swimmer” vs. neplavec “non-swimmer”).
Negative nouns will now have negative lemmas (previously some of them had positive lemmas and Polarity=Neg, but it was not applied consistently).
Pos: positive, affirmative
Examples
- přišel “he came”
- rozumný “wise”
- pěkně “nicely”
Neg: negative
Examples
- nepřišel “he did not come”
- nerozumný “unwise”
- nepěkně “nastily”
Polarity in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [el] [en] [es] [et] [fi] [fr] [ga] [gd] [gub] [hy] [jaa] [ky] [pcm] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tn] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urj] [xcl]