participation of the above phrases as hyponyms in the hypo-hyperonymic series of
lexical semantic units is important problem which is analyzed in our work.
Because, in the content of these syntactic units represents a hypo-hyperonymic
relationship, that is a [gender-species] semantic relationship.
The concept of hyponym is characterized by content and symbols expressed
in lexical units in the semantic-functional sense. These meanings and signs are
directly related to notion of the generality in objective existence. In the mind of
speakers of the same language, hyperonyms appear as lexical units that express the
exact meaning of words that express the concept of gender.
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This kind of hierarchical structure in semantic branch can be mainly made a
scientific observation in hyponomic words. They are regarded from top to bottom,
which means that higher level is described more general and the lower is
described more specific than the other levels. For instance, the word “flower” will
be in the highest position after the rose, lily, tulip and the lowest position may be
made up garden tulips, parrot tulips and triumph tulips.
According to Murphy M.L, “The necessity of representing hyponymy in the
lexicon is called into question”
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. That is, the semantic relation of hyponymy is a
linguistic expression of the meaning group and its broad relation. In this case, the
expression of information such as lexical and linguistic information is redundant
because information already exists as part of our secular knowledge.
1.2. Hyponomic taxonomy is an object of study semantics.
In this globalization period, investigating every branch is considered
extremely important to develop and reaching peak of the science. Also this time
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https://library.ziyonet.uz
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Djumabaeva J. N. Sabirova N. The study of hyponymic taxonomy in English linguistics and the lexical and
semantic relations of hyponymy. Ilkogretim Online-Elementary Education Online,2020; - P. 870-878.
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Murphy M.L. Hyponymy and hyperonymy. Cambridge University Press. 2003. - P. 566 p
.
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is becoming respectively vital period that every possiblities are used to improve
the language such as linguistic branch, methodology and literature are being the
object of researching by linguistic scientists. In this third paragraph we can see
and study that hyponomic taxonomy is an object of study semantics.
The practice and science of categorization or classification is called
taxonomy. If we can see the history of taxonomy, there will be many questions
about it that how it appeared, how it used, what means, when used or who used
firstly. The roots of this word taxonomy is connected with Greek language that
taxis ( meaning order and arrangement) and the “nomos” (law or science).
Mainly, taxonomy or taxonomical clasification is a scheme or
configuration of systematic arrangement in groups or categories according to
established criteria, especially a hierarchial classification, in which things are
organized into groups or types.
The extreme vital term is the concept of taxonomy which is becoming that
one of enhancing important value in the semantic branch. The word
“taxonomy” has used by linguistic scholars in a different of manners, some of
them which endeavour the little relationship to the subject of this dissertation.
Some people have used “taxonomy” to refer to any system of classification and
naming, regardless of its structure. Used in thyis way, “taxonomy” is
effectively synonymouse with “lexical domain”. “Taxonomy” and “taxonomic
structure” are defined here so as to be applicable only to a particular subclass
of lexical domains whose members display certain formal properties.
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In this
situation, taxonomy or taxonomic structure can help human to grasp fully the
main concept and idea of the word widely.
Also English linguist Lounsbury mentioned about it in hios writings that
“Taxonomy” is sometimes employed to refer, not to a hierarchy of sets, but rather
to an arrangement of properties (semantic features), presumably one felt to be
consonant with a hierarchy of sets. For eaxample, in the standart of usages
followed here, if one were to consider the English words person, man, and woman
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Kay P. “Taxonomy and Semantic Contrast”. Published by: Linguistic Society of America. 1971. – P. 866.
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to be involved in taxonomic relations, the elements of the taxonomic structure
would be the set of humans, the set of the men and the set of women. On the other
hand, in the view suggested by Lounsbury, the basic elements of taxonomic
structure are the properties (features) human, male, female and so on.
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It would
be perhaps be possible to construct a formal account of taxonomic structure based
on the property or feature approach. I think, however, that there are reasons against
adopting a feature approach at the outset, although this is not the place to present
those arguments in detail.
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The intuitive notions of taxonomy and taxonomic
structure formalized here are similar to those of biosystematics. Biological
taxonomy, however, involves an order of structure beyond that set up here as
taxonomic-namely, that of the series of absolute categories species, genus, family,
…kingdom and the definition of these categories as sets of taxa. Our taxonomic
structure is simply a hierarchy of inclusion relations among sets. Formal treatments
of biological taxonomies have been given by Gregg, Beckner and van Valen .
Some anthropologists have found taxonomic structures in the cultures of non-
literate peoples, and it appears likely that important parts of the lexicons of all
natural languages are organized taxonomically. The initial discoveries in the
modern era that extensive and precise taxonomies exist among illiterate primitives
originally occasioned surprise bordering on incredulity in some quarters. But it is
increasingly recognized that the similarity to Linnaean taxonomy of the folk
taxonomies discovered by ethnographers and ethnobiologists need not cause
surprise, since Linnaean taxonomy is simply the particular folk taxonomy with
which Western Europeans are most familiar. Linnaeus did not invent the principles
of taxonomy; he simply employed, and made explicit, those which were implicit in
his own culture which, as it turns out, for the most part represent universal
principles of classification and nomenclature, found in all human cultures and
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Lounsbury K., Floyd G. A formal account of the Crow and Omaha type of kinship terminologies. In
Goodenough, 1964. –P. 351-94.
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Gregg M. John R, The language of taxonomy: an application of symbolic logic to the study of classificatory
system. New York: Columbia University Press1954. –P. 191-206
Kay Paul. Comment on Ethnographic semantics: a preliminary survey. Reprinted with addendum in Tyler.
1966.- P.78-90
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languages (with regard to universals in taxonomic nomenclature). The present
study is thus an attempt to summarize as explicitly as possible certain empirical
findings of classical biosystematics and modern semantic ethnography which may
now be considered to represent formal universals of human mental structure.
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While the analysing of taxonomy or its structure, the comprehending intellectually
will be easier for expressing the universals of human intellectual structure.
Also, Associate Professor, Doctor of Sciences in Philology J.Sh
Djumabaeva and Doctoral Student, Associate Professor, Candidate of Philological
Sciences N.K Sabirova mentioned their own opinions in their article “The study of
hyponomic taxonomy in English linguistics and the lexical and semantic relations
of hyponymy. They mentioned:- “Taxonomy involves the simultaneous existence
of three types of relationships, namely hyperonymy (kind-type), hyponymy (type -
kind), and cogyponymia (type and type). In the study of lexical-semantic groups
and functional-semantic fields of natural language word groups, there is a lack of
strict consistency and structure in the manifestation of hypero-hyponymic
relations. In the scientific typologies of various fields, hypero-hyponymy is
common phenomenon that expands and systematizes the concepts of the
profession”
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. If their opinion can be deeply analysed with semantic and lexical
features of some vocabularies like IT tool is considered hyperonymy which means
(kind – type), earphone, smartphone, printer are hyponyms that means the type-
kind and iPod, earbud, in-ear and supra-Aural earphone are co-hyponyms which
are used as type and type in the hyponymic relationship in lexical units.
The hypero-hyponymic taxonomic relations of words, phraseological units
and terminology in the linguistics attracted the attention of M.V. Lysyakova, A.M.
Plotnikova, E.L. Ginzburg, A.SH. Hayrapetyan and other linguistics.
Morover, there is some information about hypero-hyponymic taxonomy in
English linguistics in the scientific works of S. Georg, P. Key, and V. Pekar. Also
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P. Kay. Taxonomy and semantic contrast. Language ,1971. 47(4), -P. 866-887
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Dzhumabaeva, J. Sabirova N. The study of hyponymic taxonomy in English linguistics and the lexical and
semantic relations of hyponymy. 2020; 19(4). – P. 874. Doi:10.17051/ilkonline.2020.04.195
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we come acros some information about the study of hyponyms in Uzbek linguist
professor J.Sh. Djumabaeva and N.K.Sabirova’s article which was named “
The
study of hyponymic taxonomy in English linguistics and the lexical and semantic
relations of hyponymy” that was clarified and
studied this phenomenon in it.
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Hyponymy or taxonomic hyponymy is transient, and its impermeability represents
the “deductive power” of hyponymy. The relationship between transitiveness and
deduction is reflected in the classical syllogism, which includes an inclusive
relationship in the sentence Socrates Dostları ilə paylaş: |