Aspects of Semantic Opposition in English Coplanar Force Systems Physical function

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Aspects of Semantic Opposition in English Coplanar Force Systems Physical functionAntonymy is recongized as an important type of meaning relation in natural languages, yet there are very few detailed empirical studies of the topic. Through an analysis of a corpus of 43 contemporary English language novels Dr Mettinger isolates ten syntactic frames within which antonyms are regularly found: these serve as a useful heuristic tool for eliciting opposites from texts. He argues that there are two kinds of antonyms: systemic opposites