- Antonymy in Linguistics
  - Definition of Antonymy
    - Oppositeness of meaning
    - Words opposite in meaning are antonyms
  - Importance of Antonyms
    - Structuring English vocabulary
    - Omnipresent in daily life
    - Used in public signs, idioms, and proverbs
  - Classification of Antonyms
    - By Morphological Structure
      - Root Antonyms
        - Examples: deep-shallow, love-hate, up-down
      - Derivational Antonyms
        - Words with same roots and negative affixes
        - Examples: happy-unhappy, harmful-harmless
    - By Semantic Contrast
      - Gradable Antonyms
        - Differ in degree
        - Intermediate ground exists
        - Examples: big-small, very big-very small
        - Graded against different norms
        - Unmarked term as cover term
      - Complementary Antonyms
        - Either-or relation
        - Non-gradable and exclusive
        - Examples: forget-remember, success-failure
      - Converse Antonyms
        - Reversal of relationship between two items
        - Two entities involved, one presupposes the other
        - Examples: husband-wife, parent-child
  - Practical Uses of Antonyms
    - Context-dependent Antonyms
      - Polysemous nature of words
      - Examples: fresh-stuffy, fresh-tired, fresh-stale
    - Stylistic Effects
      - Economic expression of opposites
      - Formation of idioms and oxymoron
      - Use in antithesis for emphasis
      - Examples in literature: Charles Dickens
  - Summary of Lecture
    - Definition and classification covered
    - Morphological and semantic classifications explained
    - Practical uses discussed
  - Assignments for Review
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