Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil

Facultad de Artes y Humanidades

Syntax and Semantics
Período A 2023
Lexical Semantic Relations
Nombre: Jade Fon Fay

Watch the video about Semantic Relations and provide a brief description of each of
them together with an example, which must be different from the one provided in the
video.

a) Synonymy: Words that have similar meanings, like house and home.
b) Antonymy: Words that have opposite meanings, like hot and cold (gradable),
friend and enemy (relational) and truth and lie (absolute).
c) Hyponymy: Words that are a subset of another, like apple is a hyponymy of
fruit.
d) Hypernymy: Words that are a superset of another, like vegetable is a
hypernymy of lettuce.
e) Meronomy/Partonomy: A word that is a part of another. Like nose is a
meronym of face.
f) Holonymy: A word that a whole made of parts, like book is a holonymy of page.
g) Polysymy: Words that sound the same and have meanings that are related to
each other. Like fight as in to fight as in a verb and fight as in a noun.
h) Homophyny: Words that sound the same but have different meanings. Like
knight and night.