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Lexical Semantics: Opposites

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<strong>Opposites</strong><br />

- probably the one sense relation that is<br />

most readily understood by ordinary<br />

speakers<br />

- most languages seem to have an nonlearned<br />

term for it:<br />

Arabic: ‘aksi; Chinese: tao-fan;<br />

French: contraire;<br />

German: gegensatz; ...

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