A Paradigmatic Lexical Relation Study of Analysing Entailment in Identity and Inclusion Relations

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Marewan D. Taher
Salah M. Salih

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While paradigmatic lexical/sense relations are traditionally used to analyse the relations between lexical items, the present article adopts a descriptive qualitative method, based on Cruse’s (2000) classification of lexical/sense relations, to find the identity and inclusion relations of two lexical items in two different texts by using the logical entailment relation. The article aims at finding out whether or not lexical items can be substituted by another without changing their meaning; the meaning of one lexical item is included in the meaning of the other; and the validity of these relations in one context can be tested as entailment relations. The study concludes that entailment has a context-bound relation with regard to identity and inclusion relations. Entailment occurs freely with propositional synonymy. Although the two lexical items in near synonymy are close in meanings or related, entailment relation cannot be attained. Entailment in hyponymy is a unilateral relation. i.e., the meaning of one hyponym entails the meaning of the superordinate, but the meaning of the superordinate does not entail the meaning of each hyponym. Entailment in meronymy relation stands if the relation is between patronym to holonym, i.e., the entailment relation does not stand under holonym to partonym.

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Taher, M. D. and Salih, S. M. (2023) “A Paradigmatic Lexical Relation Study of Analysing Entailment in Identity and Inclusion Relations”, Koya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 5(1), pp. 159-166. doi: 10.14500/kujhss.v5n1y2022.pp159-166.
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Marewan D. Taher, Department of English Language, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Koya University, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

My name is Marewan Dhahir Taher. I am an assistant lecturer and a member of the teaching faculty at the department of English Language Language/Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Koya University, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. In 2011, I achieved a BA degree in English Language & Literature at Koya University as one of the top students. In 2016, I achieved an MA degree in Linguistics. I'm interested in different disciplines such as Cognitive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Semantics, and Pragmatics.

Salah M. Salih, Department of English Language, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Koya University, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Welcome to my Academic Profile page. My name is Salah Mohammed Salih. I am an Assistant Professor and a teaching faculty at the Department of English Language, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences / Koya University, Kurdistan Region, F.R. Iraq. I have a BA degree in English Language, MA in English Language and Linguistics, and a Ph.D. in English Language and Linguistics. I am a member of the Iraqi Translators Association and an editorial member of some International Journals. I teach both undergraduate and postgraduate classes and supervise MA theses and Ph.D. dissertations.

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