contrast set

noun

contrast set

noun
1

Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences A set of concepts whose names are coordinate terms.

  • The notion of a contrast set is made explicit in recent work in formal semantics (Krifka 1991; Rooth 1985).1996, Toshio Inui, James L. McClelland, Attention and Performance XVI:

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