Saturday, May 3, 2008

Hypernym or Hyperonym?

WU Xiaojing

The two linguistic terms hypernym and hyponym are somwhat confusing. Some scholars prefer hyperonym. I prefer supernym. Although super is not of Greek origin, yet hybrids are not impermissible in English and moreover, supernym sounds simpler and clearer. Compare the following pairs:

hypernym(y) vs hyponym(y)
hyperonym(y) vs hyponym(y)
superonym(y) vs hyponym(y)

Of the three options I think the third one is the best. Also compare the following pairs. The third pair should be the best.

hypernymic vs hyponymic
hyperonymic vs hyponymic
superonymic vs hyponymic

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Unknown said...

While hybrids are permissible as you say, the prefix hypo requires hyper as its opposite. Otherwise it looks a little strange.

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Unknown said...

np I really enjoyed your posts on pleonastic compounds. These for me are one of the most interesting aspects of Chinese.
As you said, the compounds come out less ambiguous than each of their individual parts. Forgive my non-native speaker misconceptions, but could phonetic ambiguity also play a part? It seems to me that modern spoken chinese only has/can afford to have a small number of monosyllabic words in each pronunciation, so the pleonastic compounds came along as a tool for disambiguation. They seem to borrow the form of copulative compounds even though no sharing of meaning is necessarily needed. However, this might be a why and not a how, so it doesnt explain why the various modes of compounding were selected for/ why one ends up with such wonderful examples as 月亮 when 月球 is a more prosaic option

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thank u for your comments. yes, u r right. homonymy is one of the reasons.

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