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Antonyms in Mind and Brain: Evidence from English and German presents a multi-method approach to the investigation of lexical opposition using the language pair English-German. By investigating a wide variety of opposite pairs, this book addresses the following from a data-driven perspective: - Explores the factors that determine the antonymic strength of the pair of opposites; - Questions whether there is a clear distinction between 'good' and 'bad' opposites, and examines whether the internal structure of the category of antonymy should instead be described in terms of prototype theory; - Interprets the relation between antonymy and cognitive concepts, as well as the words which encode these concepts. Taking a multi-method and cross-linguistic approach, this research is ideal for students and researchers of lexical and cognitive semantics and those with an interest in theoretical linguistics.