Sense Relations

Sense Relations

1. Semantics: Study of meaning in general

2. Lexical semantics: The study of word meaning, and the semantic relationship between words

   • 3 types of meaning
     • Referential Meaning
       • Denotation
     • Social meaning
       • Connotation
     • Affective meaning

3. Hyponymy

   • Jeep is a hyponym of CAR

4. Meronymy

   • PISTON is a meronym of ENGINE

5. Synonymy

   • Start- Begin Stop- Cease

6. Antonymy

   • Rich- Poor Tall-Short

7. Converseness

   • Uncle- Nephew Above - Below

8. Homonymy

   • Race: Competition Race: genetically defined population group

9. Polysemy

   • Paper: "Writing material", "Document written on a paper"