LEXICAL RELATIONS

Synonymy

Two or more words

Closely related meanings

Funny: humorous, comical

Two forms

opposite meanings

gradable’

old /new

non-gradable

married/single

hierarchical relationship

animal/cat

Spell and sound similar but different meanings.

pupil (at school) –pupil(in the eye)

The characteristic instance

automobile

type of relationship

based on similarity.

and in everyday experience

Ex. head

group of two or more forms

hang out together

do homework

one form has multiple meanings

related by extension

futbol

Humorous effect.

Here lie the bones of one 'Bun'
He was killed with a gun.
His name was not 'Bun' but 'Wood'

Forms with same pronunciation,but different meaning

too/two