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<p>A point of logic. "Not X" and "Antonym (X)" are distinct
notions, and the original query by Ian Joo pertains to the former,
not the latter. Hence, the Wikipedia entry on "auto-antonym",
however interesting in its own right, is not directly relevant to
the original query.</p>
<p>From a narrow truth-functional perspective, "X or not X" is a
tautology, and hence any meaningless expression in a language
(e.g. an exclamation expressing an affective state) would be
equivalent to, say, "go or not go". But somehow, I suspect that
this is not what Ian Joo is looking for ...<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 31/05/2018 12:57, Joo Ian wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I would like to know if the following
universal claim holds:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>There exists no lexeme that can mean X
and the negation of X. (For example, no lexeme can express
“to go” and “to not go”).<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I wonder if such “bipolar polysemy” exists
in any lexeme, because I cannot think of any, and whether this
claim is truly universal.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I would appreciate to know if there is any
counter-evidence.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">From Hong Kong,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ian Joo<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ianjoo.academia.edu">http://ianjoo.academia.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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