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Linguistics
The scientific study of human language.
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reference
Language; Linguistics
The use of language to express a proposition, i.e. to talk about things in context.
sense
Language; Linguistics
The literal meaning of a word or an expression,independent of situational context.
complentary antonymy
Language; Linguistics
Members of a pair in complementary antonymy are absolutely complementary to the other field, such as male & female.
converse antonymy
Language; Linguistics
A special kind of antonymy in that members of a pair do not constitute a positive-negative opposition, such as buy-sell, lend-borrow, above-below etc.
relational opposites
Language; Linguistics
Converse antonymy in reciprocal social roles, kinship relations, temporal and spatial relations. There are always two entities involved. One presupposes the other. The shorter, better;worse. Etc are ...
hyponymy
Language; Linguistics
A relation between two words, in which the meaning of one word (the superordinate) is included in the meaning of another word (the hyponym).
