Lexical semantics

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1. LEXICAL SEMANTICS GEOUP MEMBERS ABDUL WAHAB AREEBA MAJEED JAVERIA AKHTER

2. LEXICAL SEMANTICS LEXICAL RELTIONS KINDS OF SEMNTIC RELATIONSHIPS CONCLUSION CONTENTS:

3. WHAT IS LEXICAL SEMANTICS SEMANTICS: Study of linguistic meaning. LEXICAL SEMANTICS: Lexical semantic deal with a language’s lexicon, or the collection of word in a language. Study of word meaning To represent a Each word in a language. Meaning of word in a language are interrelated.

4. LEXICAL RELATION: There are different types of lexical relation. A lexeme or semantic word may be in a number of these relations called networks. PEAK; part of the mountains near synonyms of summit . PEAK; part of the hat near synonym of visor

5. HOMONYMY SYNONYMY ANTONYMY Homophones POLYSEMY PROTOTYPE KINDS OF SEMANTICS RELATIONSHIPS METONYMY HYPONYMY

6. Prototypes For example: HYPERNYMY And hyponymy When the meaning of one form is included in The meaning of another, the relationship describe as hyponymy. For example: Animal/dog Rose/flower

7. Synonym Synonym are words with the same or similar meanings. e.g . long time / extend time beautiful / adorable POLYSEMY WHEN WE ENCOUNTRE TWO OR MORE WORDS With the same form and related meaning E.g. The word head, use to refer to the object on top of your body .

8. homophones homonyms When two or more different forms have the same pronunciation e.g. Meat/ meet. Flower/ flour Homonym is two or more words that have the same sound/spelling but Different in meaning. For example: pair/ pare To/too/two Bore/ boar

9. METONYMY Relationship between word based simply on a close connection in every day experience e.g. Bottle/ water Can / juice Antonymy Two forms with opposite meaning e.g. Rich / poor True / false