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From a linguistic point of view, the first step is to develop a structured
notion of what a wordfield is.
Consider the following definitions:
- 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.
- Synonymy defines an equivalence relation which defines equivalence classes in a vocabulary, namely of words with the same meaning.
- Antonymy defines a partition of a vocabulary into equivalence classes of synonyms.
Okay, back to work - define and list the following wordfields systematically.
Nouns:
- Cardinal numbers from 1 to 1000.
- Time of day, day and night periods, days of the week, months, seasons, holidays.
- Parts of the body.
- Food.
- Drink.
- Furniture.
- Buildings.
- Streets, roads, etc.
- Animals, plants.
Adjectives:
- Size.
- Colour.
- Evaluations: good, bad, ...
- Feelings: happy, sad, nervous, ...
Dafydd Gibbon, Wed Jul 23 16:03:38 MEST 2003 Automatically generated, links may change - update every session.