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List of Figures page viiList of Tables viii1. Introduction 11.1 Motivations 11.2 Research Questions 11.3 Organization of Chapters 22. Literature Review 32.1 Definition and Categorization 32.2 Some Properties of Being Opposites 53. Opposites in Constructions 103.1 Research Question 103.2 Methodology, Candidate List and Corpus 103. 3 Results 113. 4 Discussion 353.5 Summary 604. Opposites in Discourse 614.1 Research Question and Previous Experiments 614.2 Methodology, Candidate List and Corpus 664.3 Result 824.4 Discussion 964.5 Summary 1095. Opposites and Negation 1115.1 Research Question 1115.2 Methodology, Candidate List and Corpus 1115.3 Result 1145.4 Discussion 1215.5 Summary 1386. Conclusion 1 4 0Appendices 143References