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Antonymy : a corpus based perspective /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jones, Steven, 1974-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Series:Routledge advances in corpus linguistics.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.