Word Meaning

Word Meaning

1. Lexical relations

   • the way speakers and hearers construct meaning.

2. Logical words

   • names, common nouns, pronouns

3. Words

   • can be identified at the level of writing

4. Lexemes

   • a meaningful linguistic unit that is an item in the vocabulary of a language

5. Lexical entry

   • may contain several lexemes or senses

6. Collocation

   • the tendency for word to occur together repeatedly

7. Idioms

   • are created by a type of fossilization where individual words have ceased to have independent meanings

8. Ambiguity

   • where a words can have a different sense

9. Lexical field

   • An important organizational principle in the lexicon

10. Homonyms

    • are unrelated senses of the same phonological word

11. Homographs

    • senses of the same written word

12. Homophones

    • Senses of the same spoken word

13. Polysemy

    • is the capacity for a sign (such as a word, phrase, or symbol) to have multiple meanings

14. Synonym

    • different phonological words which have same or very similar meanings

15. Antonyms

    • Gradable pairs
      • good/bad, hot/cold
    • Reverses antonyms
      • in/out, pull/push
    • Converses
      • teacher/student
    • are words that have the opposite meaning

16. Taxonomic sisters

    • Meronymy
      • "finger" is a meronym of "hand"
    • members of the same taxonomy. (colors /red,blue,

17. Member Collection

    • Tree/forest, book/library

18. Portion mass-

    • drop/liquid, sheet/paper)

19. Causative verbs

    • express the idea of somebody causing something to happen or causing another person to do something

20. Agentive nouns

    • Derived from the verbs and in the written forms –er or –or , describe who/which perform the action