Hierarchical Lexical Relation
Definition:
A hierarchical lexical relation is an association between lexical units that have a system of arrangement into levels of increasing:
- size
- complexity
A hierarchical set has the structure of a scale.
Examples:
(English)
- Geopolitical boundaries
- {county, state, country}
- {province, country}
- Sets related to analytic paradigms
- {morpheme, word, phrase, clause, sentence, discourse}
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This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.