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Lexical Semantics: Opposites

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Contrastive Aspects<br />

equipollent (hot:cold):<br />

more objective – “primitive”<br />

polar (long:short) & overlapping<br />

(good:bad):<br />

more subjective – “conceptualised”<br />

- English is relatively subjective.<br />

- Macedonian is very conceptualised,<br />

since all antonyms polar ones.

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