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undersoil, sedimentary clay, boulder clay and clunch “ are considered
hyponyms of
“soil”. According to categories, it is considered the natural entity in term of
general semantic category and it is substance according
to specific semantic
categories, lastly, according to hyponymy subtype this is composition-based
hyponymy. Another example for analyzing hyponymic relation the word juice.
In the figure that given below, the hyponymic relationship is represented by
a scheme called “juice taxonomy”.
Juice
Herbal juice Vegetable juice Fruit juice
Orange juice lemon juice pear juice
Mandarin juice Tropicana orange juice navel orange juice
Figure 14. Hyponymic relationship in lexical field “Juice”.
The lexical units in this scheme are parts of the hyponymic or taxonomic
paradigm. Given the probability that the tree structure is in an asymmetric state,
this figure can be viewed carefully that each lexical unit can have many hyponyms,
but they have a single hyperonymy. For example,
if the word “juice” has
hyponyms such as
“mandarin juice”, “Tropicana orange juice”, “navel orange
juice”, “orange juice” is their hyperonymy. The word
“fruit juice” is the
hyperonymy of
“orange juice”. According to Lions, “these cross-categorical
relations are quasi hyponymy. But even in nominal taxonomies, we see some
differences in syntactic categories at the highest levels”.
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Adjectives can also have
nominal hyperonyms, for example “emotion>happy, sad, angry”. Hyponymy is a
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paradigmatic relationship in which the relationship between members of the same
syntactic category is represented. The inter-category relationship is called “quasi-
hyponymy”.
In some cases, a high degree of syntactic category differences is
observed in nominal taxonomy. For example, even though the word
“fruit” in the
picture above is a noun phrase, it is used in the adjective form
“fruit juice”. The
orange juice varieties
“navel” and
“mandarin juice” are represented at the bottom.
In spite of given factual details which is connected with that the words
“herbal
juice” and
“vegetable juice” in the primary stage are in the unit of uncount, the
word
“juice” is a noun in the category that is also not counted.
In the lexical field, hyponymy
appears at several levels, that is, if
hyperonyms contain a hyponym, the hyperonym itself can be considered its
hyponym under the superordinate term that is one step higher. The semantic field
of a hyperonym can exist as a superordinate, which is wider than a hyponym. The
hierarchical structure of the semantic level is mainly manifested in hypero-
hyponymic relations. These relationships can be observed in the form of a general,
upper level and a specific lower level, that is, “top-down”. For example, the phrase
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