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limits of reference
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1. lexical thought is embedded in lexical thought and understanding (you can point to a dog, but not the class of dogs.)
2. lexical meaning is related to syntax and discourse (the syntactic roles that a word can play and the syntactic structures that a word requires are part of the word's meaning. 3. words mean in physical and cultural context. (ex. polysemy. a complex system of shared cultural context |
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polysemy
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one word carrying multiple historically related meanings.
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lexical field
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a set of words that somehow belong together
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hyponymy
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denotes a set of hierarchical set of relationships
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hypernym
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superordinate. more general
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hyponym
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subordinate to their hypernym
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meronym
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the relation of whole to part. tail, whiskers, paws, ears, snout =dog
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