CONTENTS
Abbreviated Titles of Texts Cited in Examples = ⅶ
Introduction = 1
1 "Antonymy": Scope and Delimitations = 4
1.1 Some remarks on the state of the art = 4
1.2 Semantic opposition: two "againsts" = 15
1.3 Adversativity, oppositeness of meaning, and contrast = 21
2 Contrast = 33
2.1 Introduction = 33
2.2 Opposites in context: basic assumptions = 36
2.3 Opposites in context: corpus = 45
3 Semantic Opposition: Systemic versus Non-Systemic = 61
3.1 Introduction = 61
3.2 Systemic semantic opposition = 62
3.3 Non-systemic semantic opposition = 69
4 Oppositeness of Meaning: Basic Assumptions = 84
4.1 Introduction = 84
4.2 Central oppositeness of meaning = 85
5 Central Oppositeness of Meaning: Analyses = 94
5.1 Introduction = 94
5.2 Digital opposites = 98
5.3 Scalar opposites = 106
6 Central Oppositeness of Meaning: Some Further Issues = 148
6.1 Oppositeness of meaning vs. negation = 148
6.2 The problem of markedness = 157
6.3 Some remaining problems = 159
Appendix A. Opposites in Context: Index of Sources = 169
Appendix B. The Roget's Thesaurus Corpus = 173
Bibliography = 180
Index = 199
