What is Negative Polarity?!
Question:
What is Negative Polarity?
I am a pisces, and was reading into my sign a little bit... It stated that as a pisces my polarity is negative... what does that mean?
Answers:
In linguistics a polarity item is an expression which is sensitive to the presence, in the same sentence, of certain other expressions, known as "licensing" (or "anti-licensing") expressions.
The most well-known polarity items are those that are sensitive to negation and related expressions. These polarity items divide into those that must co-occur with a "somehow negative" expression ("negative polarity item", NPI) and those that cannot ("positive polarity item", PPI). An example of an NPI is the English word any. It is ungrammatical if it occurs in a sentence without a "negative" expression (A star "*" in front of a sentence means the sentence is believed to be ill-formed):