Semantic Relations and the Lexicon: Antonymy, Synonymy and other Paradigms

by M. Lynne Murphy

• ISBN13: 9780521070584
• ISBN10: 0521070589
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Semantic Relations and the Lexicon explores the many paradigmatic semantic relations between words, such as synonymy, antonymy and hyponymy, and their relevance to the mental organization of our vocabularies. Drawing on a century's research in linguistics, psychology, philosophy, anthropology and computer science, M. Lynne Murphy proposes a pragmatic approach to these relations. Whereas traditional approaches have claimed that paradigmatic relations are part of our lexical knowledge, Dr Murphy argues that they constitute metalinguistic knowledge, which can be derived through a single relational principle, and may also be stored as part of our extra-lexical, conceptual representations of a word. Part I shows how this approach can account for the properties of lexical relations in ways that traditional approaches cannot, and Part II examines particular relations in detail. This book will serve as an informative handbook for all linguists and cognitive scientists interested in the mental representation of vocabulary.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Symbols and typographical conventions

Paradigmatic Relations, Generally

Why lexical relations?

A pragmatic approach to semantic relations

Other approaches

Paradigmatic Relations, Specifically

Synonymy and similarity

Antonymy and contrast

Hyponymy, meronymy and other relations

Lexicon and metalexicon: implications and explorations

Appendix: relation elements

Notes

References

Index

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