O antonimiji u arapskoj leksici
On antonymy in Arabic

Summary/Abstract: In the introduction to the present paper the author limits the scope of his treatment of antonymy in Standard (literary) Arabic. He is primarily concerned with the simultaneous occurence of opposite meanings in individual words, i. e. with the phenomenon known. as »tadadd« in Arabic semantics. However, other aspects of oppositions of lexical meaning (viewed, naturally, from the standpoint of semantics) are also dealt with, whereas only a few syntactic structures are discussed (such as prepositional structures as well as those known in Arabic by the terms »muzawagat« and »itba'«), without dwelling on the syntactic structure of the sentence amd with onlya casual reference to some stylistlic devices connected with this phenomenon. The introductory part of the paper includes a brief discussion, too, of the concept of »opposition« itself and of cognate types.: for the (logical) category of »relation«.

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