Enantiosemy in Russian and Romanian Languages: Notes and Ideas Cover Image

Enantiosemia în limbile rusă și română: note și idei
Enantiosemy in Russian and Romanian Languages: Notes and Ideas

Author(s): Daniela Gheltofan
Subject(s): Philology
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: enantiosemy; polysemy; antonymy; omonymy; ambivalence;

Summary/Abstract: The article addresses the issue of determining some features of enantiosemy among related linguistic phenomena – antonymy, polysemy, homonymy. Building on Russian and Romanian theories (Novikov 1973, Bucă 1976, Sârbu 1977, Evseev 1983, Sokolov 1980, Gorelov 1986, Šmelev 2012, etc.), the author aims to present a classification of enantiosemantic words, proceeding from the assumption that practically any words, in a certain context, can undergo enantiosemic transformations (cf. Evseev 1983). As a result, some particularities ascribed to enantiosemy allow defining this phenomenon as an independent category of lexical semantics in present-day linguistics (cf. Šmelev 2012, Klégr 2013).

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 55
  • Page Range: 67-72
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian