Aspects of Semantic Opposition in English
Arthur Mettinger
Antonymy is recognized as an important type of meaning relation in natural language, yet there are very few detailed empirical studies of the topic. Through an analysis of a corpus of forty-three contemporary English-language novels, Mettinger isolates ten syntactic frames within which
antonyms are regularly found: these serve as a useful heuristic tool for eliciting opposites from texts. Arguing that there are two kinds of antonyms--systematic and non-systematic opposites--he analyzes numerous pairs of antonyms, highlighting an important semantic relationship.
Book of the Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology series
- ISBN: 0198242697
- ISBN-13: 9780198242697
- Author : Arthur Mettinger
- Language : English
- Format: Hardcover - Search for other formats
- Publication Date: 3/1/1994
- Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA
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