On the Word Space of the Antonymous Compound Words Formed by the Multi-dimensional Extension of the Size Domain:The Collostructional Analysis,
"Big"and"little",as size words,represent people's perception of the space.Such disyllabic compound words as gaoda and weixiao reflect the multi-dimensional extension of the spatial perception.The distribution of the compounds in the word space can be reflected by the co-occurrence of antonymous words:the more antonyms a compound word can co-occur with,the wider scope the word's conception may cover;the stronger is their attraction strength,the closer are the conceptions of the antonyms.The co-occurrence of compounds is means of the elaboration of conceptual meanings,as well as the profiling and deprofiling of conceptual aspects.