Hi Ian.<br><br>The following sentences in Mandarin Chinese might imply some bipolar polysemy: <br>(1) Wǒ chàdiǎner méi diào xiàqu<br> 1sg almost not-yet fall down<br>can either mean:<br> "I almost fell down" (i.e. I did not fall down)<br>or<br> "I almost didn't fall down" (i.e. I did fall down)<br>(2) Wǒ chàdiǎner méi gàosu tā.<br> 1sg almost not-yet tell 3sg.<br>can either mean:<br> "I almost told him/her" (i.e. I haven't told him/her)<br>or<br> "I almost haven't told him/her" (i.e. I did tell him/her)<br>Hopefully this might help.<br><br>Tianqiao Lu <br>School of Linguistic Sciences<br>Jiangsu Normal University<br>China<br><br><div><includetail><div> </div><div> </div><div style="font:Verdana normal 14px;color:#000;"><div style="FONT-SIZE: 12px;FONT-FAMILY: Arial Narrow;padding:2px 0 2px 0;">------------------ Original ------------------</div><div style="FONT-SIZE: 12px;background:#efefef;padding:8px;"><div id="menu_sender"><b>From: </b> "Giorgio Francesco Arcodia"<giorgio.arcodia@unimib.it>;</div><div><b>Date: </b> Thu, May 31, 2018 07:06 PM</div><div><b>To: </b> "mattis.list"<mattis.list@lingpy.org>; <wbr></div><div><b>Cc: </b> "lingtyp"<lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org>; <wbr></div><div><b>Subject: </b> Re: [Lingtyp] Does bipolar polysemy exist?</div></div><div> </div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>I don't know if that counts, but: in Italian, <i>ospite</i> means both 'host' and 'guest'. In a given situation, you can't be both, so, (I guess) in a sense this word can be the negation of itself.</div><div><br></div><div>Apologies, semantics is not my <i>forte.</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Giorgio</div><div>馬振國<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-05-31 13:03 GMT+02:00 Mattis List <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mattis.list@lingpy.org" target="_blank">mattis.list@lingpy.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Wouldn't the frequent cases of pronouns or pronoun-like words in French<br>
(personne = "person, nobody", pas = "step, not", etc.) come close to<br>
this notion? And this process has historically also be claimed for other<br>
negation words, like Ancient Greek "ou", if I am not mistaken.<br>
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Best,<br>
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Mattis<br>
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On 2018-05-31 12:57, Joo Ian wrote:<br>
> Dear all,<br>
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> I would like to know if the following universal claim holds:<br>
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</span>> /There exists no lexeme that can mean X and the negation of X. (For<br>
> example, no lexeme can express “to go” and “to not go”)./<br>
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> I wonder if such “bipolar polysemy” exists in any lexeme, because I<br>
> cannot think of any, and whether this claim is truly universal.<br>
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> I would appreciate to know if there is any counter-evidence.<br>
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> From Hong Kong,<br>
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> Ian Joo<br>
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