问答题 Categorize the following pairs: child - kid, alive - dead, big - small, husband - wife.
【正确答案】正确答案:Child - kid can be categorized under synonymy, alive - dead complementary antonymy, old -young gradable antonymy, and husband - wife converse antonymy. Synonymy is the technical term for the sameness relation. The members of a pair of complementary antonymy are complementary to each other. They divide up the whole of a semantic field completely, which means not only the assertion of one means the denial of the other, and the denial of one also means the assertion of the other. Pairs of words of gradable antonymy have three characteristics: (1) they are gradable—the members of a pair differ in terms of degree. As such, they can be modified by "very". And they may have comparative and superlative degrees. (2) Antonyms of this kind are graded against different norms. The criterion varies with the object described. (3) One member of a pair, usually the term for the higher degree, serves as the cover term. Converse antonymy shows the reversal of a relationship between two entities. It is the same relationship seen from two different angles, and there is always two entities involved, which makes the major difference between this type and the above two types of antonymy.
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