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Zuber, Ryszard. 1980. Privative opposition as a semantic relation. Journal of Pragmatics 4 (5) : 413–424. 
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English
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Z. discusses the relation of privative opposition between marked and unmarked terms, as in poet-poetess. This relation can be used to define the notion of proper assertion and to explain some derivations of non-literal meaning.