WORD MEANING

WORD MEANING

1. Leonard Bloomfield

   • "A word, then, is a free form which does not consist entirely of (two or more) lesser forms: in brief, a word is a minimum free form

2. Lexical Semantics

   • To represent the meaning of each word in the language. To show how the meaning of words in a language is interrelated

3. Word

   • A word is in a relationship whith other in the same sentence, but also can be in a relationship with an absent word
     • Logical words
       • Names, common nouns, pronound, logical words

4. Edward Sepir

   • "The word is merely a form, a definitely model entity that takes in as much or as little of the conceptual material of the whole thought as the genius of the language cares to allow

5. Lexical Relations

   • Homonyms
     • Same word, different meaning. Same pronunciation, different meaning
       • Antonymy
         • These are opposite words
   • Polysemy
     • Same word, same pronunciation, same lexical field, different meaning
       • Hyponomy
         • Is a subordinate of a more general word (superordinate)
       • Meronymy
         • Is a word that represents a part of a word that represents a whole
       • Synonymy
         • Different words, same meaning