Difference between revisions of "Complementary"

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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.