A cross-linguistic study of the discourse functions of antonymy in Albanian and English
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12866122 |
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| Authors | Ekaterina Strati (Aleksandër Moisiu University, corresponding author), Ergys Bezhani (University of Tirana) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 43 |
| Pages | 106-120 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies About Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1648-2824 • E-ISSN: 2029-7203 |
| Publisher | Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5755/j01.sal.1.43.35322 |
| OpenAlex | W4390110344 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Antonymy is considered a binary lexical-semantic opposition of words, a lexical-sematic relation among other relations such as synonymy, hyponymy, and meronymy. Several authors have categorized the binary opposition of antonyms when considering the typology of antonyms. Issues such as the use of antonyms in discourse, how different languages use antonyms, patterns of distribution, etc., will be dealt with in this paper. This study aims to provide a comparative perspective of the Albanian and English patterns of co-occurrence of antonymous pairs in sentences. The co-occurrence of antonyms in sentences and the roles of antonymous pairs have been the object of cross-linguistic study in different languages, including French, Swedish, Chinese, Serbian, Rumanian, etc. This article adds to the list of cross-linguist studies, providing a broader database for further comparative studies and opening the way to other comparative studies between similar and different languages other than English. This article aims to identify examples of antonym pairs co-occurring in the same syntactic frame using an empirical, quantitative method. The Albanian National Corpus is used as a “clinical setting” for the investigation. A detailed analysis of the distribution of such pairs in the English and Albanian corpora, with examples illustrating similarities and differences. Both languages show a predominance of ancillary and coordinated antonymy. Also, coordinated antonyms are more significant in number in both languages and are followed by the second major group of ancillary antonyms. Regarding differences, far more examples were classified as residual in Albanian than in English. Key Words: antonymy, co-occurrence, pairs, corpus-based research, discourse functions
Linguistics · Opposition (politics · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Serbian · Sociology · Typology · Computer Science · Lexicography and Language Studies · linguistics and terminology studies · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
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