polarity response (inf)

Type information packaging
http://example.org/cx/hasExample Do you have any money?
http://example.org/cx/hasExample Yes (I do)
http://example.org/cx/hasExample No (I don't)
http://example.org/cx/hasExample I don't know
http://example.org/cx/hasExample It's none of your business
Definition the answer to a polarity question. Example: the polarity response to Do you have any money? in English is Yes (I do) or No (I don't). (This is excluding other less cooperative responses such as I don't know or It's none of your business.) (Section 12.3.3)
altLabel polarity answer
See section (in Croft 2022) 12.3.3
Function of polarity response construction
Subtype of response

Source

The Model of Comparative concepts for Constructicon Alignment (MoCCA; Lorenzi et al. 2024) proposes to connect constructions across and within languages using Comparative Concepts as a shared base of comparison. It adopts the set of Comparative Concepts provided by Croft (2022).

Croft, William. 2022. Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World’s Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/morphosyntax/1AAB4F5F9C553F675170DCA3F03F82E2#contents. (14 October, 2025).
Lorenzi, Arthur, Peter Ljunglöf, Ben Lyngfelt, Tiago Timponi Torrent, William Croft, Alexander Ziem, Nina Böbel, Linnéa Bäckström, Peter Uhrig & Ely E Matos. 2024. MoCCA: A Model of Comparative Concepts for Aligning Constructicons. In Proceedings of the 20th Joint ACL - ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation @ LREC-COLING 2024, 93–98. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.isa-1.12/. (22 July, 2025).

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