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Latest revision as of 18:56, 22 June 2014
Complementary is a sense relation holding between any pair of predicates <P, Q> that fulfills the following conditions: If a referent x has property P, it cannot have property Q, and if x does not have property P, it has property Q:
- P → not Q
not P → Q
Complementarity is a special case of incompatibility.
Examples
single: married, male: female
Other languages
Chinese 互补性
German Komplementarität
References
- Lyons, John. 1968. Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Cruse, A. 2004. Meaning in Language. An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
