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Aspects of Semantic Opposition in English
Aspects of Semantic Opposition in English

Aspects of Semantic Opposition in English

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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.
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