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Vocabulary: everyday wordfields

From a linguistic point of view, the first step is to develop a structured notion of what a wordfield is.

Consider the following definitions:

  1. Hyponymy defines a partition over a subset of a vocabulary called a wordfield. The members of the subset have meanings which imply the meaning of a synonym class, the meaning of whose members covers the whole subset.
  2. Synonymy defines an equivalence relation which defines equivalence classes in a vocabulary, namely of words with the same meaning.
  3. Antonymy defines a partition of a vocabulary into equivalence classes of synonyms.

Okay, back to work - define and list the following wordfields systematically.

Nouns:

  1. Cardinal numbers from 1 to 1000.
  2. Time of day, day and night periods, days of the week, months, seasons, holidays.
  3. Parts of the body.
  4. Food.
  5. Drink.
  6. Furniture.
  7. Buildings.
  8. Streets, roads, etc.
  9. Animals, plants.

Adjectives:

  1. Size.
  2. Colour.
  3. Evaluations: good, bad, ...
  4. Feelings: happy, sad, nervous, ...


Dafydd Gibbon, Wed Jul 23 16:03:38 MEST 2003 Automatically generated, links may change - update every session.