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Sense Relations: A dynamic construal approach Hyponymy / Hyperonymy
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  • Sense Relations: A dynamic construal

    approach Hyponymy / Hyperonymy

  • Sense relations   … incompatibility, hyponymy, antonymy, etc.

      Lexical semantics and structuralism   Stable properties of individual lexical items

      Context dependence?

      Cognitive linguistics?   Examples Hyponymy / Hyperonymy

  • Hyponymy /Hyperonymy   Involving nouns (X is hyponymous to Y):

      Xs are Ys (Koalas are marsupials)   Xs and other Ys (Koalas and other

    marsupials)   Of all Ys, I prefer Xs (Of all fruit I prefer

    mangoes)

      Is it a Y? Yes, it is an X (Is it a drum? Yes, it’s a djembe)

  • Hyponymy / Hyperonymy   Other parts of speech:

      Did she hit him? Yes, she punched him in the stomach.

      Is your new skirt red? Yes, it’s a maroon velvet.

      Hyponymy can be seen as an instance of a container-schema (class inclusion)

      One way for testing for meaning inclusion: entailment relations (e.g., transitive relations)

  • Hyponymy/Hyperonymy: difficulties

      Speakers classify dog:pet as hyponymous   But it’s a dog doesn’t entail it’s a pet

      Problems?   Structural lexical semantics: Yes

      Sense relations hold between words   Cognitive linguistics: No

      Sense relations hold between specific construals of words

      Context(culture?)-dependence: Central feature!


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