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Swedish opposites
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Abstract
This is an investigation of ‘goodness of antonym pairings’ in Swedish, which seeks answers to why speakers judge antonyms such as bra-dålig ‘good-bad’ and lång-kort ‘long-short’ to be better antonyms than, say, dunkel-tydlig ‘obscure-clear’ and rask-långsam ‘speedy-slow’. The investigation has two main aims. The first aim is to provide a description of goodness of Swedish antonym pairings based on three different observational techniques: a corpus-driven study, a judgement experiment and an elicitation experiment. The second aim is to evaluate both converging and diverging results on those three indicators and to discuss them in the light of what the results tell us about antonyms in Swedish, and perhaps more importantly, what they tell us about the nature of antonymy in language and thought more generally.
Abstract
This is an investigation of ‘goodness of antonym pairings’ in Swedish, which seeks answers to why speakers judge antonyms such as bra-dålig ‘good-bad’ and lång-kort ‘long-short’ to be better antonyms than, say, dunkel-tydlig ‘obscure-clear’ and rask-långsam ‘speedy-slow’. The investigation has two main aims. The first aim is to provide a description of goodness of Swedish antonym pairings based on three different observational techniques: a corpus-driven study, a judgement experiment and an elicitation experiment. The second aim is to evaluate both converging and diverging results on those three indicators and to discuss them in the light of what the results tell us about antonyms in Swedish, and perhaps more importantly, what they tell us about the nature of antonymy in language and thought more generally.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Introduction 1
- Lexico-semantic relations in theory and practice 5
- Swedish opposites 15
- Using web data to explore lexico-semantic relations 49
- Synonyms in corpus texts 69
- Antonymy relations 95
- An empiricist’s view of the ontology of lexical-semantic relations 115
- The consistency of sense-related items in dictionaries 145
- Lexical-semantic and conceptual relations in GermaNet 163
- Index 185
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Introduction 1
- Lexico-semantic relations in theory and practice 5
- Swedish opposites 15
- Using web data to explore lexico-semantic relations 49
- Synonyms in corpus texts 69
- Antonymy relations 95
- An empiricist’s view of the ontology of lexical-semantic relations 115
- The consistency of sense-related items in dictionaries 145
- Lexical-semantic and conceptual relations in GermaNet 163
- Index 185
