WORD MEANING

WORD MEANING

1. ENTAILMENT

   • The study of word meanings, especially the changes that seem to take place over time, are also the concern of philology and lexicology.

2. WORDS AND GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES

   • It is clear that grammatical categories like noun, preposition, etc.,

3. WORDS AND LEXICAL ITEMS

   • Words can be identified at the level of writing, where are familiar with them being separated by white space or call them orthographic words

4. Meaning of a word

   • It is easier to define a word if you are given the phrase or sentence it occurs in.

5. Collocation

   • The first restricting influence is the tendency for words to occur together repeatedly.

6. Homonymy

   • They are unrelated sense of the same phonolycal word. Homonyms include homographs and homophones.

7. POLYSEMY

   • Polysemy is invoked if the senses are judged to be related.

8. SYNONYMY

   • are different phonological words which have the same or very similar meaning

9. OPPOSITES

   • Antonyms are words which are opposites in meaning.

10. HYPONYMY AND MERONYMY

    • Hyponymy is a relation of inclusion. It includes the maning of more general word.
    • Meronymy is a term used to describe a part-whole relationship between lexical items.