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What a corpus-based dictionary tells us about antonymy

In English

Författare

Redaktör

  • E. Corino
  • C. Maraello
  • C. Onesti

Summary, in English

This paper investigates the treatment of antonymy in Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s

English Dictionary (2003) in order to find out what kinds of headwords are provided with antonyms

as part of their definitions and also discusses the principles for antonym inclusion in the entries.

CCALED includes canonical antonyms such as good/bad and dead/alive, as well as more

contextually restricted pairings such as hot/mild and flat/fizzy. The vast majority of the antonymic

pairings in the dictionary are adjectives. Most of the antonyms are morphologically different from

the headwords they define and typically do not involve antonymic affixes such as non-, un- or -less.

Only just over one-third of the total number of pairs are given in both directions. The principles for

when antonyms are included in CCALED are not transparent to us.

Publiceringsår

2006

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

213-220

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Proceedings XII EURALEX International Congress

Dokumenttyp

Konferensbidrag

Ämne

  • Languages and Literature
  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Nyckelord

  • corpus-based methods
  • antonymy
  • lexicology

Conference name

EURALEX

Conference date

0001-01-02

Status

Published