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THE CONCEPTUAL OPPOSITION LIGHT – DARKNESS AS A CONCEPTUAL BASE OF SEMANTICS OF ENGLISH COMPOUND ADJECTIVES

THE CONCEPTUAL OPPOSITION LIGHT – DARKNESS AS A CONCEPTUAL BASE OF SEMANTICS OF ENGLISH COMPOUND ADJECTIVES


Author:  M.B. Antonova

Affiliation:  National Research University Higher School of Economics

Abstract
The paper focuses on the archetypical opposition «light – darkness» as a conceptual base forming semantics of English compound adjectives that denote mental characteristics of human beings.

Keywords:  conceptual base, conceptual opposition, archetypical opposition, etymon

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