List of Tables 2 List of Figures 3 Chapter 1?Introduction 1 1.1 Motivations 1 1.2 Research Questions 1 1.3 Organization of Chapters 2 Chapter 2?Literature Review 3 2.1 Definition and Categorization 3 2.2 Some Properties of Being Opposites 5 Chapter 3?Opposites in Constructions 9 3.1 Research Question 9 3.2 Methodology, Candidate List and Corpus 9 3.3 Result 10 3.4 Discussion 29 3.5 Summary 49 Chapter 4?Opposites in Discourse 51 4.1 Research Question and Previous Experiments 51 4.2 Methodology, Candidate List and Corpus 56 4.3 Result 68 4.4 Discussion 79 4.5 Summary 91 Chapter 5?Opposites and Negation 93 5.1 Research Question and Hypothesis 93 5.2 Methodology, Candidate List and Corpus 93 5.3 Result 95 5.4 Discussion 101 5.5 Summary 116 Chapter 6?Conclusion 117 References 121 Appendix A?A Full List of Seed Pairings for Chinese Experiments on Fixed Words 125 Appendix B?A Full List of Candidate Words in Each Conceptual Group 127 Appendix C?Examples for Each Chinese Syntactic Frames 134