positive polarity item

/P AA1 Z AH0 T IH0 V P OW0 L EH0 R AH0 T IY0 AY0 T AH0 M/
noun
  1. 1

    (linguistics) A polarity item that only appears in an affirmative (positive) licensing context.

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