Noun Vocabulary

Noun Vocabulary

1. Has-relation

   • Prototypes
     • clear, central members for denotation of a word
   • makes available entailment
   • has parts
     • Spatial parts
       • general
         • people, houses, tress, hills, animals, pianos, etc.
       • deictic
         • balls, planets, trees, hills
   • beginnings
   • ends

2. Hyponymy

   • concerned with
     • labelling of sub-categories of a word's denotation
   • superordinate
     • can be a hyponym at a higher level
   • no prototypicality needed
   • hierarchy
     • High
       • senses of words
     • Low
       • meanings more detailed
   • categories grouped under superordinate terms

3. Incompatibility

   • contrast
     • different against a background of similarity
   • between of superordinate
   • Synonyms are exception
   • Nonsynonymous
     • not with each other
     • hyponyms of their higher-level superordinates

4. Mass Nouns

   • not quantified
   • undifferentiated whole entities
   • "much"

5. Count Nouns

   • quantified
   • "many"
   • whole entities