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<div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word">And here, to complement Peter Lutzeier’s magnum opus, is Carl Abel’s classic — less magnum, but inspirational, among others fooling Sigmund Freud and Jacques Derrida, no less.
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<div class="">On 31. May 2018, at 12:29, <<a href="mailto:g.corbett@surrey.ac.uk" class="">g.corbett@surrey.ac.uk</a>> <<a href="mailto:g.corbett@surrey.ac.uk" class="">g.corbett@surrey.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space">For auto-antonyms, German Gegensinn, don’t miss Peter Lutzeier’s three volumes of amazing examples. German is full of them:
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<div class="">On 31 May 2018, at 11:57, Joo Ian <<a href="mailto:ian.joo@outlook.com" class="">ian.joo@outlook.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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Dear all,</div>
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I would like to know if the following universal claim holds:</div>
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<i class="">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”).</i></div>
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I wonder if such “bipolar polysemy” exists in any lexeme, because I cannot think of any, and whether this claim is truly universal.</div>
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I would appreciate to know if there is any counter-evidence.</div>
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From Hong Kong,</div>
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