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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,</p>
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<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>
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<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>
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<p class="MsoNormal">From Hong Kong,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ian Joo<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">http://ianjoo.academia.edu<o:p></o:p></p>
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