http://ijl.oxfordjournals.org International Journal of Lexicography - RSS feed of articles 1477-4577 International Journal of Lexicography 0950-3846 http://ijl.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/ecn011v1?rss=1 Contronymy, a phenomenon which has received much attention in recent years, has often been described as sense opposition at the micro-level. By extending current theories on the different types of paradigmatic sense relations of exclusion and opposition (i.e. horizontal relations) which concentrate on issues of contrastive relations, five different types of contronyms can be distinguished, namely contronymy of incompatibility, contronymy of antonymy, contronymy of complementarity, contronymy of conversivity and contronymy of reversivity. This article provides an investigation of this unusual phenomenon by demonstrating each type together with relevant examples. Its lexicographic applications will also be discussed.

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