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Антонимија придева просторних односа
Antonymy of Spatial Adjectives

Author(s): Marija S. Milosavljević
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Lexis, Semantics, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, South Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Филолошки факултет Универзитета у Бањој Луци
Keywords: antonymy; adjectives; adjectival antonyms; spatial relations; verbal associations;

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses the antonymy of spatial adjectives. The aim is to verify the extent to which the frequency of occurrence of certain associations is related with the meaning of adjectives and the degree of opposition among members of adjectival antonymic pairs. Adjective antonyms were analysed on the basis of the Associative Dictionary and verbal associations, which were obtained through a survey with associative tests. Based on the material from the dictionary, it was concluded that in adjectives that have regular antonyms, in most cases the antonym appears as the first association. However, the survey has shown that with adjectives that have an antonym, the antonym does not necessarily appear as the most frequent association.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 306-323
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian