comeronymy

noun

comeronymy

noun

Etymology From co- + meronymy or comeronym + -y.

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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences, Semantics The semantic relation between comeronyms (names for parts of a whole); the quality of being comeronymous.

  • If Hansen et al. (1982, 203–204) are correct in including the sense of exclusion, i.e. cohyponymy, among the word‑internal semantic relations[…], then the question arises whether the other form of the exclusion relationship, comeronymy, could not be found among polysemes as well.2013, Aleš Klégr, “The limits of polysemy: enantiosemy”, in Linguistica Pragensia, volume 23, number 2, Prague: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, page 21:
  • Finally, path types are defined as sequences of elementary relations represented by their macro identifier of Table 5, with two specific notations: […] second, two subsequences corresponding to well-known lexical relations are replaced by a specific identifier: h for the subsequence GG⁻¹, which corresponds to the cohyponymy relation and m for the subsequence CC⁻¹, which corresponds to the comeronymy relation.2015, Olivier Ferret, “Typing Relations in Distributional Thesauri”, in Núria Gala, Reinhard Rapp, Gemma Bel-Enguix, editors, Language Production, Cognition, and the Lexicon (Text, Speech and Language Technology; 48), Cham: Springer, →DOI, page 128:
Related terms
automeronymy, autoholonymy, cohyponym, cohyponymy, hypernymy, hyponymy

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