contrastive
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Etymology
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Adjective
contrastive (comparative more contrastive, superlative most contrastive)
- Contrasting: tending to contrast; being in contrast.
- Coordinate terms: disjunctive; comparative; conjunctive
- 1965 June 4, Shigeyuki Kuroda, “Generative grammatical studies in the Japanese language”, in DSpace@MIT, retrieved 2014-02-24:
- This thesis is an attempt to apply the theory of transformational grammar to the Japanese language. […] Comparison of the structure of Japanese and English is also our concern, whenever possible, and it is seen that the transformational theory is helpful in such contrastive studies.
- 1985, David-Hillel Ruben, The Metaphysics of the Social World, page 141:
- Consider the first, allegedly contrastive fact, that there were some bank robbings by Sutton rather than no robbings at all by Sutton.
- 2008, Alexandra Aikhenvald, The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea, →ISBN, page 1:
- Vowel length is contrastive.
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contrastive
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