Some Remarks on Antonymy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2861274 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Magnus Ljung (0000-0002-2822-5311, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 74 |
| Publication date | 1974-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/412011 |
| OpenAlex | W2023489276 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 8 |
The notion of ‘antonymous adjective’, as used in recent and not-so-recent literature, is discussed here; and the criteria for antonymy suggested by different researchers are found to yield largely the same results. It is suggested that only noun-based adjectives can be ‘antonymous’, and that a useful delimitation of the term 'antonymous adjective can be achieved in terms of the inherentness of the underlying nouns: all scalar nouns taken to be inherently possessed by some entity may serve as the base for a set of an-tonymous adjectives. This conclusion is supported by a comparison with adjectives derived from so-called inalienable nouns: the two types of adjective are found to share many characteristics. Finally, some implications for grammatical descriptions are discussed
Linguistics · Lexicography and Language Studies · linguistics and terminology studies · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1976 - 2026 (51) |
| Highly cited | No |