Abstract
In the studies of opposite pairings, the saying that some opposite pairs have one member as unmarked and the other marked "covers a number of disparate and independent phenomena" (Lyons 1977: 305). A lot of work has been done on selecting criteria for determining the unmarked/marked members (e.g., Lehrer 1985). This paper reviews the three most used criteria (morphological mark, semantic meaning and context-frequency) in previous studies and examines the theoretical criteria with natural language facts, especially with examples of Chinese. The aim is to discuss whether such criteria are capable in practical using. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.
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Ding, J., & Huang, C. R. (2013). Markedness of opposite. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 8229 LNAI, pp. 191–195). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45185-0_21
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