cohyponymy
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English
Etymology
From co- + hyponymy or cohyponym + -y.
Noun
cohyponymy (uncountable)
- (semantics, linguistics) The semantic relation between cohyponyms (coordinate terms); the quality of being cohyponymous (coordinate).
- Synonyms: coordinateness, coordination
- Hypernym: nonsynonymy
- Coordinate terms: parasynonymy, plesionymy; synonymy; hypernymy, hyponymy; antonymy; comeronymy; antiphrasis
- 2013, Aleš Klégr, “The limits of polysemy: enantiosemy”, in Linguistica Pragensia, volume 23, number 2, Prague: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, page 9:
- Hansen et al. (1982, 202) mention the following semantic relations that systematically obtain between the senses of polysemic words: (conceptual) hyponymy, hyperonymy and cohyponymy on the one hand, and (figurative) metonymy and metaphor on the other.
- 2015, Olivier Ferret, “Typing Relations in Distributional Thesauri”, in Núria Gala, Reinhard Rapp, Gemma Bel-Enguix, editors, Language Production, Cognition, and the Lexicon (Text, Speech and Language Technology; 48), Cham: Springer, , page 124:
- A first step in this direction was taken by Heylen et al. (2008), who focused on a larger set of elementary relations, including synonymy, hypernymy and hyponymy, in addition to the composed relation of cohyponymy.