Aspects of Semantic Opposition in English

Abstract

Part 1 Antonymy - scope and delimitations: some remarks on the state of the art semantic opposition - two againsts adversivity, oppositeness of meaning and contrast. Part 2 Contrast: opposites in context - basic assumptions opposites in context - corpus. Part 3 Semantic oppostion - systemic versus non-systemic: systemic semantic opposition non-systemic opposition. Part 4 Oppositeness of meaning - basic assumptions: central oppositeness of meaning. Part 5 Central oppositeness of meaning - analyses: digital opposites scalar opposites. Part 6 Central oppositeness of meaning - some further issues: oppositeness of meaning versus negation the problem of markedness some remaining problems. Appendices: opposites in context - index of sources the Roget's Thesaurus corpus.