Antonymy: A Corpus-Based Perspective

by Jones,Steven

• ISBN13: 9780415263740
• ISBN10: 0415263743
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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