Russian Linguistic Bulletin (Dec 2019)

ANTONYM WORDS WITH PREFIXES IN THE TERMINOLOGY OF ECONOMY IN THE ALBANIAN LANGUAGE

  • Pllana, S.,
  • Pllana, B.A.,
  • Pllana, F.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.18454/RULB.2019.20.4.4
Journal volume & issue
no. 4
pp. 27 – 32

Abstract

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Antonyms, like synonyms, consitutes a kind of paradigmatic conjunction of words. Antonymy, as a theoretical problem of lexicology, is closely related to the practical needs of its proper implementation in lexicographic work. Words, in contrast to meaning, in themselves represent an aspect of lexical microsystem with conditional connections of explicitly expressed elements. In this paper we will analyze in detail the antonym words with prefixes in the terminology of Economy in the Albanian language. We will make a structural and semantic analysis of antonyms with prefixes, focusing more on their analysis by the structure, which relates to the type or degree of the contradiction or the semantic contradictory features of these antonym words, with the structural and semantic relation that exists between the subject of the word with a prefix and that without a prefix, and with the antonymic function of the prefixes. This is made possible on the basis of the close link that this phenomenon, like the synonymy, has with ambiguity. The same word, in different meanings, simultaneously enters into different synonymic and antonymic conjunctions and thus enters the composition of different groups of the terminological system. The bulk of the examples we rely on, which reveal the features of antonymy in the terminology of Economy in the Albanian language have been extracted from monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, as well as from published university textbooks from the field of economics.

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