Glossary:Coordinated Antonymy: Difference between revisions
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'''Coordinated antonymy''' indicates the | '''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== | ==General pattern== |
Latest revision as of 17:26, 27 March 2013
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]).