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Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   That goes against expectations; unexpected.

   "For example, in Saramaccan, property items can be reduplicated to encode counterexpectational semantics."

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"For example, in Saramaccan, property items can be reduplicated to encode counterexpectational semantics."

Etymology

From counter- + expectational.

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