Corpus linguistics is the study of language data on a large scale-the computer-aided
analysis of very extensive collections of transcribed utterances or written texts. This textbook …

This paper introduces a fairly recent corpus-based approach to lexical semantics, the
Behavioral Profile (BP) approach. After a short review of traditional corpus-based work on …

The study of antonyms (or'opposites') in a language can provide important insight into word
meaning and discourse structures. This book provides an extensive investigation of …

The domain of linguistics that has arguably been studied most from a corpus-linguistic
perspective is lexical, or even lexicographical, semantics. Already the early work of pioneers …

The structure of this book is influenced by a number of strands of inquiry reflecting the
interdisciplinary nature of this study, including ideology, news discourse, oppositions (hence …

Knowing the degree of semantic contrast between words has widespread application in
natural language processing, including machine translation, information retrieval, and …

The goal of this paper is to combine corpus methodology with experimental methods to gain
insights into the nature of antonymy as a lexico-semantic relation and the degree of …

A book that uses domain-general learning theory to explain recurrent trajectories of
language change. In this book, Vsevolod Kapatsinski argues that language acquisition …

This article offers a Cognitive Semantic approach to antonymy in language and thought.
Based on a series of recent empirical investigations using different observational …

Jones (2002) identified several discourse functions of antonymy, each of which is loosely
associated with a number of contrastive constructions in written English. Subsequent work …