Antonyms "High""Low" Asymmetric Research

"High""low" is our life commonly used a pair of antisense adjectives, has not found the antonyms special research. This paper mark theory and based on the principle of cognitive linguistics, from the synchronic and diachronic terms of the combination of "high" for "low" the antonyms vocabulary, semantic and syntactic from three aspects of the asymmetric which describe and explain.The main content of this article from the following aspects:Part1:Introduced in this part of the related issues of the research condition;"High""low" review of research; This paper studies the corpus of source and research methods.Part2:vocabulary level of description and explanation."High" from "low" meanings, word-building quantity, word-formation form and use frequency, concluded that "high" low "and the word formation in vocabulary level of overall characteristic is asymmetric existing in the symmetry.Part3:the evolution of semantic description and explanation. Comb respectively "high""low" semantic evolution, and concluded that "high" from "low" produce time asymmetry, semantic extended time asymmetry, semantic evolvement of specific ways asymmetric semantic asymmetry emotional color changes.Part4:the level of description and explanation of grammar. From grammar level to "high" review "low" respectively and nouns, verbs, adverbs of degree, quantity phrases the collocation with nouns, verbs, adverbs of degree collocation basically is symmetrical, syntactic function in the sentence is also roughly the same. But also presents the asymmetric aspects,"high" can and some concrete noun and an abstract noun collocation, but found no and "low" collocation sentences."Old, pretty" degree adverbs tend to and "high" match,"low" with few tie-in."High" can and quantity phrases match, said height,"low" can’t match."High""low" for comparative sentences,"only so high=only so low,""high" means "height","high""low" can be interchanged. We found that the "high" appears more environment. embodies the "high" no mark sex and "low" marked the sex.