The limits of polysemy: enantiosemy

Abstract

An introductory survey of research in polysemy in English focusing on word-internal relations between senses of the lexical item, esp. enantiosemy (autoantonymy), and their analogy with relations between senses of different lexical items.

Keywords

• enantiosemy or autoantonymy
• word-internal relations between senses
• word-external relations between senses