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Aspects of Semantic Opposition in English : Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology - Arthur Mettinger

Aspects of Semantic Opposition in English

By: Arthur Mettinger

Hardcover | 19 July 2002

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Antonymy is recongized as an important type of meaning relation in natural languages, yet there are very few detailed empirical studies of the topic. Through an analysis of a corpus of 43 contemporary English-language novels Dr Mettinger isolates ten syntactic frames within which antonyms are regularly found: these serve as a useful heuristic tool for eliciting opposites from texts. He argues that there are two kinds of antonyms: systemic opposites which have meaning relations definable in strictly semantic terms, and non-systemic opposites which require contextual and encyclopaedic knowledge for an interpretation of their relationship. The author analyses systemic opposites within an autonomous semantics framework based on semantic field theory, using semantic features, semantic dimensions, and archisememes as descriptive tools. His analysis of 350 pairs of antonyms taken from Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases yields a typology of meaning-opposition in English based on syntacticosemantic criteria such as gradability and scalarity which stands in contrast to standard logic-based typologies. Among the specific topics covered are `negative' prefixes, the problem of markedness, and the treatment of meaning-opposition from a cognitive point of view.
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`The lexical entries are highly useful...Anyone who has tried to present an explicit and detailed lexical semantic analysis will appreciate the care that has gone into these entries...Anyone who is interested in the organization of the lexicon and who has some background of antonymy will profit from this book...M has valuable hands-on experience which would be welcomed by readers who wish to become more effective empiricists' Lexicology `The lexical entries are highly useful...Anyone who has tried to present an explicit and detailed lexical analysis will appreciate the care that has gone into these entries...Anyone who is interested in the organisation of the lexicon and who has some background knowledge of antonymy will profit from this book...M has valuable hands-on experience which would be welcomed by readers who wish to become more effective empiricists' Lexicology

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