Lexical Semantics: Opposites
Lexical Semantics: Opposites
Lexical Semantics: Opposites
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Inherentness<br />
but:<br />
Mary’s headache is worse than John’s.<br />
? John’s headache is better than Mary’s.<br />
There are some lexical items that do not<br />
work with better because their referents<br />
are ‘inherently bad’ (e.g. headache,<br />
depression, failure, storm, earthquake,<br />
flood...)
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