Semantic

1. Lexical
Relations
Group 4
1.Rifatul Inayah
2.Nina Khozanatul M
3.Frensia Sentot Julia

2. Lexical Relations
We consider two approaches to the
description of lexical relations :
1.Field theoryis
2.Truth conditional

3. Lexical Fields
the way of organizing related words and
expressions into a system which shows
their relationship to one another:
Example :
Male Female
Adult man woman
Child boy girl

4. Kinship
Kinship is universal since all humans are
related to other humans through blood ties
and through marriage, but kinship systems
differ from society to society.
A relationship is a kind of predicate.

5. Example :
Theme Predicate Associate
• Harold father-of Alice
• Rose sister-of Jerry

6. Hyponymy
Hyponymy
is a word with a particular meaning that is
included in the meaning of a more general
words. For example dog and cat are
hyponymys of animals

7. Example :
• 1a Rover is a collie.
• 1b Rover is a dog.
• 2a There are tulips in the vase.
• 2b There are flowers in the vase

8. Synonymy
Synonyms are words that have similar
meanings
Example :
• Alice is skinny
• Alice is thin
• Alice is slender

9. Antonymy
Antonyms are words that have opposite
meanings
Example :
• Alvin is watching television now.
• Alvin isn’t watching television now.

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