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TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new
perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes
state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across
theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new
insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary
perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for
cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in
its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards
linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as
well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for
a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the
ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes
monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes,
which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from
different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality
standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.
Antonymy is recognized as an important type of meaning relation in
natural languages, yet there are very few detailed empirical
studies of the topic. Through an analysis of a corpus of 43
contemporary English-language novels Dr Mettinger isolates ten
syntactic frames within which antonyms are regularly found: these
serve as a useful heuristic tool for eliciting opposites from
texts. He argues that there are two kinds of antonyms: systemic
opposites which have meaning relations definable in strictly
semantic terms, and non-systemic opposites which require contextual
and encyclopaedic knowledge for an interpretation of their
relationship. The author analyses systemic opposites within an
autonomous semantics framework based on semantic field theory,
using semantic features, semantic dimensions, and archisememes as
descriptive tools. His analysis of 350 pairs of antonyms taken from
Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases yields a typology of
meaning-opposition in English based on syntactico-semantic criteria
such as gradability and scalarity which stands in contrast to
standard logic-based typologies. Among the specific topics covered
are 'negative' prefixes, the problem of markedness, and the
treatment of meaning-opposition from a cognitive point of view.
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