ABSTRACT

One part of knowing the meanings of lexemes in any language is the recognition that two or more lexemes may have some semantic relationship: father and mother, father and son; father and paternal; employer and employee; big and large; big and little; red, yellow and blue. Each of these sets shows a different relationship. Two of these lexemes, employer and employee, are related formally as well as semantically; such morphological relations are the topic of Chapter 13. The present chapter deals with semantic relations that have no formal similarity.