Since the 1960s, linguistics has devoted more attention to antonyms. Slovene linguistics started to deal with antonymy with Toporišič’s 1976 grammar, while the most visible contribution to this area has been that made by Ada Vidovič Muha. This paper presents and compares different categorisations of antonyms. Terminology in this area has received most attention from the Croat scholars Mihaljević and Šarić (1994). Antonymy is treated by some Slovene terminological dictionaries published since the Seventies: Urbanistični terminološki slovar (1975), Meteorološki
terminološki slovar (1990), Enciklopedija slovenskega jezika (1992), Psihiatrično izrazje (1993), Statistični terminološki slovar (1993), Vinogradništvo (1994), Tehniški metalurški slovar (1995), Poskusni snopič Bibliotekarskega terminološkega slovarja (1996), Pravni terminološki slovar (Do 1991 – gradivo) (1999), Medicinski terminološki slovar (2002). A number of lexicographic problems relating to antonymy are also presented (e.g. antonyms are not presented as paired expressions or definitions are not written in such a way that the antonymy is apparent) and an analysis is offered of antonyms offered by certain terminological dictionaries from the point of view of word formation, syntax, origin and type. In the analysed dictionaries, the most common types of antonyms are: extreme or polar, coordinated, complementary, vector and converse or exchangeable.
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