Glossary term C

Contraction Relation

A contraction relation is an interpropositional relation in which information previously expressed is partially restated.

(English)

  • I won’t go to see him, I just won’t go.

More specific concepts within contraction relation.

  1. Longacre 1983, 20, 121
  2. Beekman and Callow 1974, 299
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