Holo-meronymy. Its expression in the dictionaries of contemporary Romanian Cover Image

HOLO-MERONIMIA. EXPRESIA EI ÎN DICłIONARELE LIMBII ROMÂNE CONTEMPORANE*
Holo-meronymy. Its expression in the dictionaries of contemporary Romanian

Author(s): Dorina Pănculescu, Ilona Bădescu
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: semantic relation; meronymy; holonymy

Summary/Abstract: The relation of meronymy is a hierarchical semantic relation, which enables the systematic description of the lexical structures of Romanian as well as of other languages. In competition with the hyper-hyponymy relation, it describes the material relationship of part-whole, being applied only to countable concrete nouns. It occurs in syntactic structures of the type X is part of Z and, from the discoursive point of view, it is included in the dictionary definitions.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 348-353
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian