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Aspects of Semantic Opposition in English (Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology)

Author: Arthur Mettinger
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: studies, lexicography, lexicology, oxford, english, semantic, opposition, aspects
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1994-03-24
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 0198242697
ISBN-13: 9780198242697

Book Description:

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.


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