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Lexical Semantics: Opposites

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Contrastive Aspects<br />

one observation: if translated to another<br />

language a pair of antonyms will not<br />

necessarily belong to the same structural<br />

group as the English pair:<br />

English: hot:cold – equipollent<br />

French: chaud:froid – polar

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