A Project for Editing a Dictionary of Antonyms in Persian

The paper is devoted to a project for editing a dictionary of antonyms in Persian. The concept of antonymy is first investigated based on the views of Iranian and European writers. New standpoints on the subject by Jackson (2000) and H. Jackson, E. Z. Amvela and Lynne Morphy (2004) are then discussed. It is followed by the Study of antonymy in lexicography. The paper terminates with the necessity for editing a modern dictionary of antonyms and the delicacies of the project.