Antonymy: From convention to meaning-making

Review of Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 367-391

  Paradis, Carita ^a   Willners, Caroline ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Categorization; Configuration; Construal; Constructions; Corpus; Frequency; Lexico semantic relation; Oppositeness; Psycholinguistic experiment; Schema; Synonymy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867510190     PISSN: 18779751     EISSN: 1877976X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/rcl.9.2.02par     Document Type: Review

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