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Antonymy relations
Abstract
Antonymy is a relation of lexical opposition which is generally considered to involve (i) the presence of a scale along which a particular property may be graded, and hence both (ii) gradability of the corresponding lexical items and (iii) typical entailment relations. Like other types of lexical opposites, antonyms typically differ only minimally: while denoting opposing poles on the relevant dimension of difference, they are similar with respect to other components of meaning. This paper presents examples of antonymy from the domain of speech act verbs which either lack some of these typical attributes or show problems in the application of these. It discusses several different proposals for the classification of these atypical examples.
Abstract
Antonymy is a relation of lexical opposition which is generally considered to involve (i) the presence of a scale along which a particular property may be graded, and hence both (ii) gradability of the corresponding lexical items and (iii) typical entailment relations. Like other types of lexical opposites, antonyms typically differ only minimally: while denoting opposing poles on the relevant dimension of difference, they are similar with respect to other components of meaning. This paper presents examples of antonymy from the domain of speech act verbs which either lack some of these typical attributes or show problems in the application of these. It discusses several different proposals for the classification of these atypical examples.
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
