What is a hierarchical lexical relation?

A hierarchical lexical relation is an association between lexical units that have a system of arrangement into levels of increasing

• size, or
• complexity.

• Geopolitical boundaries

  • {county, state, country}
  • {province, country}

• Sets related to analytic paradigms

  • {morpheme, word, phrase, clause, sentence, discourse}

A hierarchical set has the structure of a scale.

Context for this page:

• Concept module: hierarchical lexical relation
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): H
• 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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