What is an individual-group lexical relation?

An individual-group lexical relation is an association between two lexical units in which one lexical unit is a collective term of the other.

The underlying structure of a individual-group lexical relation set is a set of pairs.

Here are some frames for testing and eliciting an individual-group lexical relation:

• A group of Xs is called a Y.
• A Y is a collection of Xs.

Context for this page:

• Concept module: individual-group lexical relation
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): I
• 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

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003. [Ordering information.]

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