[Lingtyp] Does bipolar polysemy exist?

[David Gil]

On 31/05/2018 13:37, Sebastian Nordhoff wrote:
> On 05/31/2018 01:18 PM, David Gil wrote:
>> 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.
> but is there any (monomorphemic) lexeme which expresses not-X which is
> not the antonym of X?
But how many (monomorphemic) lexemes expressing not-X are there at all?  
The only ones I can think of are suppletive negative existentials, e.g. 
Tagalog "may" (exist) > "wala" (not exist). Even suppletive negative 
desideratives don't quite fit the bill, e.g. Tagalog "nais"/"gusto" 
(want) > "ayaw", which is commonly glossed as "not want", but actually 
means "want not-X", rather than "not want-X" — "ayaw" is thus an antonym 
but not a strict negation of "nais"/"gusto".

What is not clear to me about the original query is whether it is asking 
for negations or for antonyms.

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David Gil

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