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'''<span style="color:darkblue">X</span>, not <span style="color:purple">Y</span>'''
'''<span style="color:darkblue">X</span>, not <span style="color:purple">Y</span>'''


===Example===
===Examples===
That's <span style="color:purple">not little</span>, it's <span style="color:darkblue">big</span>. <br/>
That's <span style="color:purple">'''not little'''</span>, it's <span style="color:darkblue">'''big'''</span>. <br/>
The public has cause for <span style="color:darkblue">pessimism</span>,<span style="color:purple"> not optimism</span>.
The public has cause for <span style="color:darkblue">'''pessimism'''</span>,<span style="color:purple"> '''not optimism'''</span>.


==References==
==References==

Latest revision as of 15:48, 26 March 2013

Negated Antonymy

Pronounciation

/nɪˈɡeɪtɪt ˈæntənɪmi/

General definition

Negated Antonymy is used to emphasize one term by denying the other. This sort of antonym is part of the minor classes.

General pattern

X, not Y

Examples

That's not little, it's big.
The public has cause for pessimism, not optimism.

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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