| Type | meaning |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | Kit didn't find his glasses |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | Kit didn't like the movie -- he loved it! |
| Definition | indicates that the situation expressed in the utterance is false. Example: Kit didn't find his glasses expresses that Kit finding his glasses is false. This is the prototypical use of negative polarity. Negative polarity may be used to reject other aspects of the construal of the situation expressed in the utterance, as in Kit didn't like the movie -- he loved it! (where the degree expressed by like is the information rejected). (Section 12.1) |
| altLabel | negative (polarity) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 12.1 |
| Function of | negation construction |
| Subtype of | polarity |
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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