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contrastive, a.|kənˈtrɑːstɪv, -æ-|
[f. contrast v. + -ive.]
Forming a contrast; standing in contrast (to something else). spec. in Linguistics.
1816[see contrastively]. 1841Mrs. Browning Lett. R. H. Horne (1877) II. liv. 97 Something..deeply contrastive to the Heavenly Spirits. 1870Pall Mall G. 6 Oct. 4 Attitudes should be contrastive, and so composed as to balance and set off each other. 1940Z. S. Harris in Language XVI. 220 The inflections are grouped into a closed contrastive set. 1949G. L. Trager Field of Linguistics 6 When his [sc. the linguist's] activities are concerned with showing the structural differences and resemblances of the systems, he is doing contrastive linguistics. 1964Language XL. 206 Contrastive grammar..compares the structural similarities and differences between a target and a source language.
Hence conˈtrastively adv.; conˈtrastiveness, contrastive quality.
1816Keatinge Trav. I. 189 Royalty must be approached contrastively barefooted. 1949E. A. Nida Morphology (ed. 2) vi. 155 Each sememe (the meaningful contrastiveness of any morpheme) would then be subdivided into allosemes. 1964M. A. K. Halliday et al. Linguistic Sci. ii. 34 Each time we use a verbal group in spoken English we select for finiteness, modality, contrastiveness, polarity and voice. |