The document discusses semantic fields, which classify words based on their meanings and the relationships between them. It highlights various types of relationships, such as part/whole and converse pairs, using examples like kinship and professional terms. Additionally, it provides examples of different meanings tied to adjectives and descriptors.

2. Semantic Fields
we see that words can be classified into sets
according to their meaning. In a semantic
field, not all lexical items necessarily have the
same status.
words of a semantic field can have different
types of relationships to one another and to
other words in the lexicon, and we’ll classify
these relationships.
2. hammer, cloud, tractor,
eyeglasses, leaf, justice

5. Part/Whole Relationship

6. Part/Whole Relationship

11. Other examples of converse pairs include
terms denoting many other kinship
relations, such as grandchild and
grandparent or child and parent; terms
describing professional relationships,
such as employer and employee or doctor
and patient; and terms denoting relative
positions in space or time, such as above
and below, north of andsouth of, or
before and after.

12. 1. ‘easy, clear’ ( plain English)
2. ‘undecorated’ ( plain white shirt)
3. ‘not good-looking’ ( plain Jane)