Antonymy: A Corpus-Based Perspective

Antonymy is the technical name used to describe 'opposites', pairs of words such as rich/poor, love/hate and male/female. This book provides a detailed and comprehensive account of the phenomenon.

List of tables

x

Foreword

xi

Acknowledgements

xvii

The 'unique fascination' of antonymy

1

(8)

`Opposites' or `antonyms'?

1

(1)

Why study antonymy?

2

(5)

Omnipresent antonyms

7

(2)

A brief history of antonymy

9

(16)

Defining antonymy

9

(2)

Traditional categories of antonymy

11

(9)

Intuitive approaches vs. data-based approaches

20

(1)

Antonymy and corpora

21

(2)

Antonymy then and now

23

(2)

Approaching antonymy afresh: issues of data and methodology

25

(20)

Creating the database

25

(10)

Classifying the database

35

(4)

Database distribution

39

(6)

New classes of antonymy I: Ancillary Antonymy

45

(16)

What is Ancillary Antonymy?

45

(3)

A taxonomy of B pairs

48

(5)

How ancillary are A pairs?

53

(3)

Parallelism

56

(1)

Conjunctions

57

(2)

A pair/B pair detachment

59

(1)

The ancillary effect

60

(1)

New classes of antonymy II: Coordinated Antonymy

61

(14)

Distribution of Coordinated Antonymy

61

(2)

Frameworks of Coordinated Antonymy

63

(10)

Productivity of Coordinated Antonymy

73

(1)

The coordinated effect

74

(1)

New classes of antonymy III: minor classes

75

(29)

Comparative Antonymy

76

(5)

Distinguished Antonymy

81

(4)

Transitional Antonymy

85

(3)

Negated Antonymy

88

(3)

Extreme Antonymy

91

(2)

Idiomatic Antonymy

93

(2)

Residual database sentences

95

(7)

Major classes vs. minor classes

102

(2)

The endemicity of antonymy

104

(16)

Antonymy and co-occurrence

104

(10)

The average antonymous pair

114

(3)

`Good opposites'

117

(1)

So is antonymy endemic?

118

(2)

Antonym sequence

120

(18)

Sequence statistics

120

(3)

Sequence rules

123

(8)

Why are sequence rules sometimes ignored?

131

(5)

Antonyms: irreversible or idiomatic?

136

(2)

Antonymy, word class and gradability

138

(16)

Does word class affect the function of antonymy?

138

(11)

Does gradability affect the function of antonymy?

149

(4)

Different pairs, similar usage

153

(1)

Tomorrow's antonyms

154

(14)

Framework productivity

154

(2)

Seed word 1: good

156

(4)

Seed word 2: natural

160

(4)

Seed word 3: style

164

(2)

Is antonymous profiling possible?

166

(2)

Antonymy: past, present and future

168

(12)

Antonymy past

165

(6)

Antonymy present

171

(4)

Antonymy future

175

(3)

So what is antonymy then?

178

(2)

Appendix

180

(1)

Notes

181

(7)

Bibliography

188

(3)

Index

191

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Antonymy: A Corpus-Based Perspective

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