Aspects of Semantic Opposition in English

ISBN-13: 9780198242697 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 216 str.

Arthur Mettinger

Opis

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.

Recenzje

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