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Word Meaning

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glossary.

accommodation: adjusting our linguistic expectations and practices to spe-
cific circumstances.
antonyms: words representing opposing values on some dimension. See com-
plementary antonyms, conversive antonyms, gradable antonyms, non-
gradable antonyms, reversive antonyms.
co-hyponym: See coordinates.
combined entry: a dictionary entry that includes all the parts of speech to
which the entry word belongs.
complementary antonyms: pairs of words such that if one applies the other
cannot, e.g., alive/dead.
componential model (C-model): model of lexical meaning that assumes that
word meanings are complex and can be viewed as composed of smaller units
of meaning called semantic components, semantic feature, and sememe.
concordancer: computer program for doing linguistic analysis on a corpus.
connotations: aspects of the meanings of words that indicate the speaker’s/
writer’s attitude toward the word’s referent(s).
conversive antonyms: words that represent a situation from different points
of view, e.g., if X is Y’s husband then Y is X’s wife.
coordinates: expressions that have a common hyponym, e.g., phonebook and
textbook are coordinates of book.
corpus/ora: computerized collections of texts designed to allow computer-
ized linguistic analysis. See concordancer.