| Type | strategy |
|---|---|
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | Do you not have any money? |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | non |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | si |
| http://example.org/cx/hasExample | oui |
| Definition |
an alignment strategy for the polarity response construction in which the answer to a negative polarity question aligns the polarity of the answer when the answer is negative, but uses a special disagreeing form when the answer is positive. Example: in French, when the question is Do you not have any money?, the answer non noindicates that the respondent has no money, but the answer si (different from the positive answer oui yes) indicates that the respondent disagrees with the speaker and indeed does have money. (Section 12.3.3) |
| altLabel | yes/no/disagree alignment (strategy) |
| See section (in Croft 2022) | 12.3.3 |
| Subtype of | polarity response alignment |
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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