Word meaning

Word meaning

1. Lexical semantics

   • Meaning of each word in the language
   • How the meanings are interrelated
   • Aims closely related

2. Words and Grammatical Categories

   • Grammatical categories define
     • Level of syntax and morpholgy

3. Words and Lexical Items

   • A lexical entry include
     • Lexeme's pronunciation
     • Grammatical status
     • Its meaning
       • Itsmeaning relations with other lexemes
   • Lexical entry
     • Contain several lexemes

4. Lexical relations

   • Use of different senses for a word
     • Dictionaries use labels like Banking, Medicine
       • To distinguish between these words
   • Lexical Field
     • Group of lexemes
       • Belong to a particular activity or area of knowledge

5. Homonymy

   • Unrelated senses
     • of the same phonological word
       • Same syntactic category and spelling
       • Different categories, same spelling
         • . Different categories, different spelling
       • Same category, different spelling
   • Homonymous senses
     • are given separate entries

6. Polysemy

   • are judged to be related
   • Polysemous senses
     • are listed under the same lexical entry

7. Synonymy

   • Different phonological words
     • have the same or very similar meanings
       • Couch / Sofa

8. Antonymy

   • Types of antonyms
     • Simple antonyms
     • Reverses
     • Gradable antonyms
     • Converses
     • Taxonomic sisters

9. Hyponymy

   • includes the meaning of a more general word
     • more general term is called:
       • superordinate
       • hypernym

10. Meronymy

    • Describes a part-whole relationship
      • between lexical terms

11. Member-collection

    • word for a unit and the usual word

12. Portion-Mass

    • Relation between a mass noun and the usual unit
      • measurement or division

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