Antonymy is the technical name used to describe 'opposites', pairs of words such as rich/poor, love/hate and male/female. Antonyms are a ubiquitous part of ever

Semantic Relations and the Lexicon explores the many paradigmatic semantic relations between words, such as synonymy, antonymy and hyponymy, and their relevance

The study of antonyms (or 'opposites') in a language can provide important insight into word meaning and discourse structures. This book provides an extensive i

This is a book on the nature of meaning, sense similarity, sense dissimilarity, sense ambiguity, analysis of meaning, semantic fields, etc. It can be used as a

An investigation of antonyms in English, offering a model of how we mentally organize concepts and perceive contrasts between them.