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Antonymy and negation—The boundedness hypothesis [PDF]
Journal of Pragmatics, 2006 This paper investigates the interpretation of unbounded (scalar) adjective antonyms with and without negation such as (not) narrow – (not) wide and bounded adjective antonyms with and without negation such as (not) dead – (not) alive as well as their interpretations with approximating degree modifiers, fairly and almost, respectively. The investigation
Carita Paradis, Caroline Willners
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Is Black Always the Opposite of White? An Investigation on the Comprehension of Antonyms in People with Schizophrenia and in Healthy Participants [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences, 2015 The present investigation sought to expand our understanding of the cognitive processes underlying the recognition of antonyms and to evaluate whether these processes differed in patients with schizophrenia and in healthy controls.
Cristina Cacciari +6 more
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Antonymy in an Advertising Slogan
Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2021 The relevance of this work is due to the priority of such research areas as pragmalinguistics, the theory of persuasion, the theory of antonymy and the linguistics of creativity, as well as the need of further investigation of expressive potential of ...
Natalya B. Boeva-Omelechko
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A cross-linguistic study of lexical and derived antonymy
LinguisticsAntonymy is the lexical relation of opposition. The nature of the oppositeness may differ – e.g., contradictory (‘true’–‘false’) or gradable (‘tall’–‘short’) – and there may be variation as to the relationship in their formal encoding, whether the ...
Carl Borstell +2 more
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Musterbildung und Musterproduktivität innerhalb phraseologischer Makroparadigmen des Typs in der Klemme sein [PDF]
Beiträge zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft, 2023 The object of the contribution is the action-type-related, synonymous and antonymous variance of the idioms of the type “in der Klemme sein”, which is thematized against the background of the traditional phraseological and construction-grammatical ...
Barbara Komenda-Earle
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Antonymy and conceptual vectors [PDF]
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computational linguistics -, 2002 For meaning representations in NLP, we focus our attention on thematic aspects and conceptual vectors. The learning strategy of conceptual vectors relies on a morphosyntaxic analysis of human usage dictionary definitions linked to vector propagation. This analysis currently doesn't take into account negation phenomena.
Schwab, Didier +2 more
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Lexical-Grammatical Means of Expressing Oppositivity in an English Literary Text
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2021 The article considers the notional nature and peculiarities of genus-species relations between the phenomena of opposition and oppositivity ; it also deals with the lexical-and-grammatica ways of expressing the latter in an English literary text.
Larisa N. Lunkova, Julia I. Frolova
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Du paradigme vers le syntagme — l’antonymie adjectivale : quelques remarques
Neophilologica, 2020 This paper raises and discusses the relation of antonymy in adjectives. Antonymy is considered to play an important role in organizing mental lexicon. This relation defined often in logical terms stands for paradigmatic relation, as presented in WordNet.
Magdalena Perz
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Associative relations of Serbian adjectives in the free association verbal test [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2021 Previous research on the associative relations of adjectives is not unanimous in terms of whether participants more often respond by using nouns or adjectives in free association tests.
Jakić-Šimšić Milena M.
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Advanced Russian EFL Learners’ Awareness of Idiomatic Synonymy, Antonymy, and Polysemy
Journal of Language and Education, 2020 Foreign language acquisition is notoriously constrained by learners’ lack of awareness of the systemic relations that are obtained among stable multiple-unit lexical items.
Nataliya Lavrova, Elena Nikulina
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