Word meaning

Word meaning

1. Lexical semantics

   • represent the meaning of each word in the languages
   • show how the meanings of words in a language are interrelated

2. Antonymy: words which are opposite in meaning

   • Gradable antonyms
   • Reverses
   • Converses
   • Simple antonyms

3. Homophones

   • senses of the same spoken word

4. Homographs

   • senses of the same written word

5. Homonyms

   • senses of the same phonological word

6. Hyponymy

   • Categories

7. Meronymy

   • Describe a part whole relationship between lexical items

8. Synonyms

   • different phonological words which have the same or very similar meanings

9. idioms

   • expressions where the individual words have ceased to have independent meanings

10. Polysemy

    • 1 word different meanings

11. Member collection

    • Relation between a mass noun and the usual unit of measurement or division

12. Portion mass

    • Relationship between the word for a unit and the udual word for a collection of the units