What is a development lexical relation?

Understanding the development lexical relation is important for using words which refer to the

• natural stages of growth and change in living things, and
• evolvement or expansion of nonliving things of which humans are the agents.

A development lexical relation is an association between lexical units which refers to stages or steps in a process involving change such as

• expansion, and
• growth.

• Growth

  • {newborn, infant, toddler, child, adolescent, adult}
  • {seed, bud, flower}

• Process

  • {ember, spark, flame, blazing fire}
  • {planning, design, implementation, production, evaluation}

A development set has the structure of a scale.

Context for this page:

• Concept module: development lexical relation
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): D
• In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
• In bookshelf: Linguistics

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