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Lexical Semantics

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3 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Lexical Semantics.

  • Componential analysis — A structural-semantic method representing word meanings through contrasts over a set of binary or multivalued semantic features.
  • Hypernymy and hyponymy — The inverse lexical-semantic relations linking a more general term to a more specific term whose meaning is included beneath it.
  • Semantic class — A category of lexical items or referents grouped by a shared meaning feature that constrains interpretation or grammatical behavior.