Living organism
person animal plant
bird mammal reptile
placental mammal marucipal
hoofed mammals non-hoofed mammals
cloven-hoofed mammals other hoofed mammals
ovine bovine porcine
ox
cow buffalo
Holstein Black Angus Hereford Texas Longhorn
Figure 2. Folk taxonomy of the word Cow.
Although Figure 2 illustrates the taxonomy of the word “cow”, in some
respects it is unsatisfactory, the word “cow” does not include interactions. Cow is
not only a ungulate, it is a ruminant and a livestock animal, and cow species are
divided into bull, cow, calf or diary cow, beef cow and others. A multi-level
diagram of interecting taxonomies will be needed to give a complete picture of the
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relationship betweenthe word “cow”.
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According to English linguist D.A.Cruse,
many words have different hyponomic relationships depending on the context,
based on the facet on their meaning. In the example he cites, the word a book has
facets like Tome and Text, and it has hyponyms like paperback, novel words. D.
Cruse’s facet approach is designed to express the different types of relationships of
words such as book without increasing the number of meanings and hierarchial
nodes. Also, although D.Cruse introduced the term microsens into linguistics, the
phenomenon of the complete taxonomy requires some prevention of word
meanings. For example, there are many superordinates of the word knife, i.e
cutlery, weapon, surgial instrument, tool and they do not represent the importance
of the facets of the woord knife, but rather the types of knife and the various
concept of the word knife.
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While this taxonomy seems to present very few
details, it does contain detailed information. Standarts of the biological taxonomy
and component semantics require the study of the expression of unique
caracteristic differences of taxonomic steps. These subtle differences in
classificatioin are not always expressed lexicaly, and this leads to the emrgence of
hidden nodes in the taxonomy. For the expression of the phrase “cloven hoofed
mammals” in the first diagram, a hidden category such as “hoofed mammals” can
be seen. However, the need for it to remain at the level or position of the word
“equine” has been overlooked.
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J. Djumabaeva, N. Sabirova. 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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Cruse D.A. Meaning in language: An introduction to semantics and pragmatics. New York :Oxford University
Press. 2000. –P. 356
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LIVING THING
Person (animal 1) plant
Wild animal Domestic animal
cat horse goat
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