Glossary:Coordinated Antonymy

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Coordinated antonymy

The second biggest subgroup of antonyms that forms - together with ancillary antonymy - two thirds of antonym occurences.

Pronounciation

/kəʊˈɔː(r)dɪneɪtɪt ˈæntənɪmi/

General definition

Coordinated antonymy indicates the exclusiveness of a scale. It is expressed through antonyms on both sides of the conjunction, entailing that what is true for the one side is also true for the other. In contrast to ancillary antonyms, coordinated antonymy does not create dichotomies.

General pattern

There is no general pattern.

Example

Abe (2;8): I wanna play with my big cars and my little cars.

References

  • Jones, Stephen; Murphy, M. Lynne (2005). Using corpora to investigate antonym acquisition. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 10:3. John Benjamin Publishing Company.
  • Murphy, M. Lynne; Jones, Stephen (2008 November). Antonyms in children's and child-directed speech. First language 28 (4[87]).

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