Not a journal our library subscribes to, so I'm putting this here to remember it:
Opposite relationships in terminology
Abstract:
This article studies a family of semantic relationships that is often
ignored in terminological descriptions, i.e. opposite relationships that
include, but are not limited to, antonymy. We analyze English and
French terms classified in an environmental database as opposites (Eng. polluting;
green, afforestation; deforestation; Fr. réchauffer; refroidir, atténuation; intensification)
and revise this first classification based on typologies and criteria
supplied by literature on lexical semantics, psycholinguistics
and corpus linguistics. Our revised classification shows that
diversified opposite relationships can be observed between terms. They
also appear to display the same complexity as in general language.
Finally, in some cases, the nature of concepts in the specific subject
field must be taken
into consideration.
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