Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-190) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Preliminaries; Contents; List of tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 The unique fascination' of antonymy; 2 A brief history of antonymy; 3 Approaching antonymy afresh: issues of data and methodology; 4 New classes of antonymy I: Ancillary Antonymy; 5 New classes of antonymy II: Coordinated Antonymy; 6 New classes of antonymy III: minor classes; 7 The endemicity of antonymy; 8 Antonym sequence; 9 Antonymy, word class and gradability; 10 Tomorrow's antonyms; 11 Antonymy: past, present and future; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Antonymy.
International Standard Book Number
0415263743
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Antonyms-- Data processing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Semantics.