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Markedness and antonymy

Journal of LinguisticsPublished 1 September 1985
Adrienne Lehrer
Citations205
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SJR score0.90
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Abstract

Standard treatments of antonymy regularly state that of a pair of antonyms, one member is marked while the other one is unmarked. Certain semantic and syntactic properties are predicated of the unmarked (or in some cases of the marked) member of the pair. A few examples are given, usually 20 or so, which bear out the predictions.

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