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Contrastivness

Description

Contrastivness refers to the property or quality of being contrastive, specifically in linguistics. It describes the comparison and distinction between two or more languages or language varieties with regard to their structural or functional differences. Contrastivness is an important concept in language analysis and helps in understanding how languages differ from each other.

Examples of usage:

As a noun:

1. The contrastivness between English and Mandarin Chinese phonetic systems is evident in their different vowel intonations.

2. Researchers are conducting a study to investigate the contrastivness of negation in various African languages.

As an adjective:

1. The contrastivness approach allows us to compare and contrast the grammatical structure of different languages.

2. In contrastivness analysis, the focus is on highlighting the discrepancies between the syntactic patterns of two languages.

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