LEXICAL RELATIONS

LEXICAL RELATIONS

1. Relation is the way of connecting two or more things, words.

2. Lexical relates to vocabulary items, words or morphemes in a language.

3. Are relationship of the meaning of a word to the other words.

4. Are used to indicate any paradigmatic relation among words.

   • Phonetic relations,: such as rhyme or alliteration
   • Morphological relations, such as inflectional variation
   • Morpho-syntactic relations, such as membership a grammatical category

5. Are divided into

   • SYNONYM
     • Two words are synonymous if they have the same sense
       • Eg. : The house is large = the house is big
     • Are lexemes with the same meaning
   • HYPONYM
     • is a term to refer to a set or a group of words that are included in a higher term or word
       • Eg. the word vegetable can be called hyponym with carrots, spinach, and lettuce
   • ANTONYM
     • are words with opposite meanings, regular and irregular, possible and impossible
       • Eg. good >< bad, right >< left
   • POLYSEMY
     • is a term to refer to a word which has a set of different meanings
       • Eg. Head: - part of the body, - person in charge of an organisation
   • HOMONYM
     • Are words that have the same pronunciation and spelling but different meanings
       • Eg. dear and deer