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Author Jones, Steven

Title Antonyms in English : Construals, Constructions and Canonicity
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (186 pages)
Series Studies in English Language
Studies in English language.
Contents Cover; Antonyms in English; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1: Antonymy and antonyms; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Defining antonymy and oppositeness; 1.3 Key perspectives on antonymy and opposition; 1.3.1 Classical and Structuralist perspectives; 1.3.2 Relation by Contrast; 1.3.3 Previous Cognitive approaches; 1.4 Methods for studying antonymy; 1.4.1 Psycholinguistic investigations; 1.4.2 Corpus-based approaches to antonymy; 1.5 The goals of this book; 2: Antonyms in context; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Sentential co-occurrence of antonyms
2.2.1 Applying co-occurrence statistics2.3 Discourse functions of antonymy; 2.3.1 Major discourse functions of antonymy; Ancillary Antonymy; Coordinated Antonymy; 2.3.2 Minor discourse functions of antonymy; Transitional Antonymy; Negated Antonymy; Interrogative Antonymy; Comparative Antonymy; Distinguished Antonymy; 2.3.3 Residual discourse functions; Idiomaticity; Extremity; Simultaneity; 2.3.4 Distribution of discourse functions; 2.4 Summary; 3: Antonyms and canonicity; 3.1 Good and bad antonyms; 3.2 Lexical-categorical approach vs. conceptual approach
3.3 Assessing canonicity through judgement experiments3.4 Assessing canonicity through elicitation experiments; 3.5 Assessing frequency of co-occurrence using word recognition; 3.6 Assessing canonicity through web-based retrieval methods; 3.6.1 Identifying antonyms using web-as-corpus techniques; 3.6.2 Towards a text-based threshold; 3.6.3 Searching Ancillary Antonymy frames; 3.6.4 Procedural limitations; 3.7 Conclusion; 4: Antonyms in acquisition; 4.1 What does it mean to 'acquire antonymy'?; 4.2 When do children start using antonyms?; 4.3 Which antonyms do children use?
4.4 Do all children acquire and use antonyms in the same way?4.5 How do children use antonyms?; 4.6 Does familiarity with antonyms aid vocabulary acquisition?; 5: Antonyms and negation; 5.1 Antonyms and their negations; 5.2 Negation; 5.3 UNBOUNDED and BOUNDED meanings; 5.4 Interpretation of negated and non-negated antonym constructions; 5.5 The BOUNDEDNESS hypothesis; 5.6 Negated constructions in discourse; 5.7 Summary and implications; 6: Antonyms as constructions; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Construction Grammar; 6.3 Contrastive constructions and discourse functions of antonyms
6.4 Antonym pairs as lexical constructions6.4.1 Why antonym pairs are constructions; 6.4.2 The Antonym Construction and its formalization; A. The entire construction is specified as lexical [+LEX].; B. The construction consists of two (usually lexical) daughters.; C.A feature UNIT is specified as 2.; D. Pragmatically, the two daughters are considered to be minimally different for the purposes at hand; 6.4.3 Ordering of antonyms; 6.5 Ancillary Antonymy revisited; 6.6 Summary and conclusions; 7: The cognitive construal account; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 The LOC framework
Summary An investigation of antonyms in English, offering a model of how we mentally organize concepts and perceive contrasts between them
Notes 7.2.1 Lexical Meaning as Ontologies and Construals
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT Englisch, ... gnd
Subject English language -- Synonyms and antonyms.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Semantics.
English language -- Synonyms and antonyms
Antonym
Englisch.
Form Electronic book
Author Murphy, M. Lynne
Paradis, Carita
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