meaningless

Antonym(s)

Sources

• HARTMANN & STORK 1972 153 (= nonsense form)

  HARTMANN, R.R.K. & STORK, F.C. (1972) Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. London: Applied Science Publishers.

• AKMAJIAN etal. 1984 247

  AKMAJIAN, Adrian, DEMERS, Richard A., & HARNISH, Robert M. (1984) Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication, 2nd Ed. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

• LYONS 1971 140

  LYONS, John. (1971) Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge: University Press. 

• DINEEN 1967 338

  DINEEN, Francis P. (1967) An Introduction to General Linguistics. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

• WEINREICH 1980 279-280 (= nonsemantic)

  WEINREICH, Uriel. (1980) On Semantics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

• MATTHEWS 1997 220

  MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• CRYSTAL 2003 286 (meaninglessness)

  CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.