Noun Vocabulary

Noun Vocabulary

1. Prototypes: are clear, central members of the denotation of a word.

2. Mass nouns: resist being quantified with numbers and plural suffixes.(bread)

3. Hyponyms: word that has all the semantic features, or semas, of another more general. (shapes-triangles, cicrles)

4. Superordinate:concept in a hierarchical system that can be subdivided into a certain number of lower level concepts.

5. Has-relation: makes available entailments.

6. has-relation parts: the level for their parts but the parts can in turn have parts.

7. Count nouns: denote distinguishable whole entities, like beans or people or shirts.(coin)

8. Ungrammatical: that we do not assamble our sentences that way in English.

9. Deictic: word is tied to the situation of utterances.

10. Inherent spacial parts: people, house, trees, hills.

11. Spatial parts only deictically: balls, planets.

12. Ends-ropes, roads, trains

13. Nouns with ends and beginnings-week,month,era.

14. Some other parts.-the body is a source of methapores, person is denoting either a physical person.

15. Incompability: is about contrast-breakfast, lunch and dinner are different from each other within the category of meals.

16. Antonomy holds between many pairs of adjectives (short-long, quickly-slowly)

17. Hierarchies of hyponyms; thing-structure-building-house.

18. House is not only a hyponym of building, but is also a hyponym of building´s immediate superordinate, structure and via strucutre, house is also a hyponym of thin.

19. Hyponym senses get successively more detailed (1.1)