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The textual profile of antonyms

A corpus-based study

Bibliographic Data

ID3987777
AuthorsNataša Kostić (University of Montenegro, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume53
Issue4
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ling-2015-0014
OpenAlexW2563099981
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited18

Unlike the traditional approaches that describe and define antonymy on the basis of semantic properties of antonymous pairs in a language system, antonyms are in this paper considered with reference to their roles in actual language use. Antonymy has traditionally been regarded as a paradigmatic relation, but recent studies of antonym co-occurrence in electronic corpora of English and Serbian have identified two major and four minor functions of antonyms in discourse, with its accompanying lexico-syntactic patterns, matching the results of similar analyses in Japanese, Swedish, and Dutch. This paper aims to investigate the performance of three antonymous patterns in retrieving contrastive terms and the possibility to create the contrastive profile of given seed words in Serbian written discourse by means of those patterns. It also examines whether there is a relation between the markedness distinction between members of the antonymous pair and the position of the chosen seed word (i.e., whether it comes in the X or the Y position in the pattern). Results of the study show that it is possible to create the textual profile of antonyms using these lexico-syntactic constructions, and that the unmarked member has a richer contrastive profile in text

Contrastive analysis · Linguistics · Markedness · Matching (statistics) · Natural language processing · Relation (database) · Serbian · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Lexicography and Language Studies · linguistics and terminology studies · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Psychology

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Unique citing works2
Citations per year0.22
Citation span2017 - 2017 (1)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 2

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