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September 1, 1985Journal of Linguistics207 citations

Markedness and antonymy

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ALAdrienne Lehrer

Key Points

  • This research aims to investigate the relationship between markedness and antonymy in language.
  • Analysis of standard treatments of antonymy
  • Evaluation of semantic and syntactic properties associated with marked and unmarked terms
  • Presentation of approximately 20 illustrative examples
  • Demonstrates clear patterns in predications related to unmarked members of antonym pairs
  • Shows that certain syntactic properties align with the marked or unmarked status
  • Supports theoretical claims about the implications of markedness in language structures

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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Adrienne Lehrer (1985) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0ed80937aeb0126447b0bahttps://doi.org/10.1017/s002222670001032x
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