Aspects of Semantic Opposition in English (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198242697)

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.

Author: Arthur Mettinger
ISBN-10: 0198242697
ISBN-13: 9780198242697
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Language: English
Published: 03/24/1994
Pages: 214
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d