Antonymy relations: Typical and atypical cases from the domain of speech act verbs
- Antonymy is a relation of lexical opposition which is generally considered to involve (i) the presence of a scale along which a particular property may be graded, and hence both (ii) gradability of the corresponding lexical items and (iii) typical entailment relations. Like other types of lexical opposites, antonyms typically differ only minimally: while denoting opposing poles on the relevant dimension of difference, they are similar with respect to other components of meaning. This paper presents examples of antonymy from the domain of speech act verbs which either lack some of these typical attributes or show problems in the application of these. It discusses several different proposals for the classification of these atypical examples.
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| Author: | Kristel Proost |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-37291 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1075/lis.28.07pro |
| ISBN: | 978-9027231383 |
| ISBN: | 978-9027288165 |
| Parent Title (English): | Lexical-Semantic Relations. Theoretical and practical perspectives. |
| Series (Serial Number): | Lingvisticae Investigationes Supplementa (28) |
| Publisher: | Benjamins |
| Place of publication: | Amsterdam / Philadelphia |
| Editor: | Petra Storjohann |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2010 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2015/06/01 |
| Publicationstate: | Postprint |
| GND Keyword: | Antonym; Deutsch; Sprechakt; Verb |
| Volume: | 2010 |
| Issue: | 28 |
| First Page: | 95 |
| Last Page: | 114 |
| Note: | The published article is under copyright of Benjamins. The publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form. |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 410 Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Semantik |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |