Publications

Publication details [#44014]

Paradis, Carita and Caroline Willners. 2006. Antonymy and negation—The boundedness hypothesis. Journal of Pragmatics 38 (7) : 1051–1080.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

antonymy | degree particle | interpretation | negation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This test of the boundedness hypothesis, using Swedish data, examines the interpretation of bounded and unbounded adjective antonyms with and without negation. It also analyzes their interpretations with the approximating degree modifiers 'fairly' and 'almost'.