Comparative Concept: yes/no alignment (str)

yes/no alignment (str)

Typ strategy
Alias(se) yes/no alignment • yes/no alignment (strategy) • yes/no alignment strategy
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Definition

an alignment strategy for the polarity response construction in which the answer to a negative polarity question aligns the polarity of the answer, not the polarity of the speaker's question. Example: in English, the answer to the negative polarity question Do you not have any money? where the addressee does not have any money is No; the polarity of the response matches the polarity of the answer (that the addressee does not have any money). (Section 12.3.3)