Set of Formal Criteria to Identify Vietnamese Antonymous Pairs

Pham Van Lam¹ and Nguyen Bích Diep²

¹Institute of Linguistic; Vietnam

²Thang Long University; Hanoi, Vietnam

Cite this paper:
Pham Van Lam and Nguyen Bích Diep. Set of Formal Criteria to Identify Vietnamese Antonymous Pairs. Journal of Linguistics and Literature. 2023; 6(1):10-14. doi: 10.12691/jll-6-1-2

Abstract

Antonymous phenomena in general and Vietnamese antonyms in specific have been studied for a long time. The results of these studies remain mainly on two points: firstly, clarifying the concept of antonyms; secondly, classifying antonyms. Setting of formal criteria that are used to identify antonymous pairs has not been studied yet. The paper aims at developing a set of formal criteria in order to easily identify and test Vietnamese antonymous pairs without encountering any counter-example that comes from the native speakers’ intuition. The paper has formulated and described the list of logical, phonetic, semantic, pragmatic, and grammatical formal criteria. In which, the criteria of grammatical formal constructions, especially the possibility of co-occurrence of antonyms, have been deeply described through some typical, real texts.

Keywords:
antonyms formal criteria co-occurrence grammatical constructions

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