Mettinger, Arthur (Associate Professor of English Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria)
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Hardback
214 pages
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Published: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN / EAN: 0198242697
Drawing on a corpus of data from 43 contemporary novels and from "Roget's Thesaurus", this book analyzes the meaning relations that hold between antonyms (contrasting word pairs) in English. It argues that there are two kinds of antonyms - systemic and n
