FACULTY OF ARTS

Question
He is very fresh, he drinks only tangui (the concerned has Supermont mineral
water Infront of him). What is the lexical relation between “tangui” and “mineral
water”?
Provide five other such relations from observation around you. Not more than 2
pages.

ANSWER
A lexical relationship is about accounting for the way words are structured
in a language. Such a relation can be hierarchical or non-hierarchical. The
hierarchical relations include: hyponymy, meronymy and proportional series. The
non-hierarchical relations include; Polysemy, homonymy, metonymy and
synonymy.
Looking at the question, one can say that the lexical relation between
“tangui” and “mineral water” is that of hyponymy. “Mineral water” can be seen
 as the hypernym or generic term or superordinate from which other terms known
as the hyponyms are drawn like: “tangui” “supermont” “semene” and so on.
Such a relation can also be seen between the hypernym “Utensil” and the
hyponyms: “fork”, “knife”, “spoon”, “plate”, “dish” and so on.
Again the hypernym “game” has hyponyms like: “football”, “basketball”,
“volleyball” and so on
The verb “to see” has several hyponyms like: “glimpse”, “stare”, “gaze”,
“watch” and so on.
The hypernym “shape” has several hyponyms like: “round”, “square”,
“triangle”, “hectagon”, and so on.
The last of such relationships can be seen in the following graphical presentation
Hypernym = {Color

Red Blue Green

Hyponyms = Purple

Hyponyms = Violet Crimson Lavender