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Paradigmatic relations which is also called as substitutional relations, are those word

which hold between inter substitutable members of the same grammatical category;
combinatorial relations hold typically, though not necessarily, between expression of different
grammatical categories (for examples between nouns and adjectives, between verbs and
adverbs) which can be put together in grammatically well-formed combination (Lyon,2002, p.
124). Kreidler (1998, p. 48) pointed that paradigmatic relation is a relation of choice. It is the
relation of items that can substitute for one another at the same place in a sentence. The words
might be similar in meaning or little in common. For example:
I want to have a cup of coffee
tea
Water
Usually, paradigmatic relations involve words which are in the same syntactic category
as the following example:
She bought some dishes
forks
spoons
There are some types of paradigmatic sense relation of inclusion and identity:
1. Synonymy
2. Hyponymy
Hyponymy is often defined in the term of entailment.
3. Meronymy
4. incompatibility

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