Nov 15, 2016 · The key to understanding is the difference between objects and names of objects: A meronom is a part. A meronym is the name of a part. A meronomy is a relationship between parts and sub-parts. Meronymy is a relationship between words. Mereology is the mathematical study of parts and wholes. It cares about mathematical objects, not about words.

The fundamental distinction between metaphor and metonymy is that metaphor connects two concepts based on similarity and metonymy based on part/whole relationship (meronymy). Typical examples of metaphor are 'Our relationship is on rocky ground' or 'We had to battle over who will use the toilet first.'

Dec 15, 2023 · There are adjectives like "fair," "unfair," "right," "wrong," "true," and "false" that semantically are normally treated as ungradable; however, these words may have some usage in contexts where it is clear that there are gradations of the quality being discussed.

Aug 26, 2019 · Nothing is about meronymy or hyponymy hence. The only reason I thought "parents" was lexicalized is that the express "your parents" usually refers to the combination of a father and a mother by which father/mother becomes a part of or a type of "parents", which is a bi-product of the humanity, the social structure.

Aug 7, 2013 · I would suggest formulating a narrower question if you want some focused answers :-). It would be useful to first come up with a question you would like to ask about meronymy before getting into the nitty-gritty of designing a questionnaire (incidentally, using dictionary entries as empirical evidence for a lexical semantics paper strikes me as deeply odd).

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Jun 4, 2020 · In linguistics, I have seen prior examples of part-for-whole (The new face in the class, where face refers to the individual person) and whole-for-part (New York won the game, where New York refers...

In the book Concepts, Ontologies, and Knowledge Representation, the author makes a distinction between syntagmatic and paradigmatic semantic relations. That's clear enough - but then he raises a th...

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