Caroline Willners
List of John Benjamins publications for which Caroline Willners plays a role.
Articles
2011 Antonymy: From convention to meaning-making Review of Cognitive Linguistics 9:2, pp. 367–391 | Article
This article offers a Cognitive Semantic approach to antonymy in language and thought. Based on a series of recent empirical investigations using different observational techniques, we analyze (i) the nature of the category of antonymy, and (ii) the status of its members in terms of goodness of… read more
2010 Swedish opposites: A multi-method approach to ‘goodness of antonymy’ Lexical-Semantic Relations: Theoretical and practical perspectives, Storjohann, Petra (ed.), pp. 15–47 | Article
This is an investigation of ‘goodness of antonym pairings’ in Swedish, which seeks answers to why speakers judge antonyms such as bra-dålig ‘good-bad’ and lång-kort ‘long-short’ to be better antonyms than, say, dunkel-tydlig ‘obscure-clear’ and rask-långsam ‘speedy-slow’. The investigation has two… read more
2009 Good and bad opposites: Using textual and experimental techniques to measure antonym canonicity The Mental Lexicon 4:3, pp. 380–429 | Article
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 antonymic canonicity of word pairs in language and in memory. Two approaches to antonymy in language are contrasted, the… read more