Summary
Privative oppositions have arisen with Phonology within the Prague School and they are a very fruitful structural concept. Their operative power has been successively verified on the morphematic, syntactic and lexical levels. Whereby, they are also a good proof that the systematic character of the language is not limited to the grammar. A privative opposition always contains three values, namely positive / negative // neutral. These can be expressed by three lexemes (Lat mulier / uir II homo; Germ. Frau / Mann II Mensch) or by two lexemes (Lat nox / dies II dies', Sp. mujer / hombre IIhombre; Fr. femme / homme II homme-. It donna / uomo II uomo)·, in this last case, one of them indicates the negative and neutral values. Even though a privative opposition is a complex structure, it is more precise than the concepts of synonymy (homo / uir), antonymy (uir / mulier, dies / nox) or polysemy (dies H dies). The values of a privative opposition clearly reflect the three phases (thesis, antithesis, synthesis) of the Hegel's dialectic process, but their historical development is often inverse.
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