Troponymy Explained

In linguistics, troponymy is the presence of a 'manner' relation between two lexemes.

The concept was originally proposed by Christiane Fellbaum and George Miller.^[1] Some examples they gave are "to nibble is to eat in a certain manner, and to gorge is to eat in a different manner. Similarly, to traipse or to mince is to walk in some manner".^[2]

Troponymy is one of the possible relations between verbs in the semantic network of the WordNet database.

See also

• Hyponymy and hypernymy
  • Is-a
  • Hypernymy (and supertype)
  • Hyponymy (and subtype)
• Has-a
  • Holonymy
  • Meronymy
• Lexical chain
• Ontology (information science)
• Polysemy
• Semantic primes
• Semantic satiation
• Thematic role
• Word sense
• Word sense disambiguation

References

Sources

• Fellbaum . C . Christiane Fellbaum . Miller . G . George Armitage Miller . 1990 . Folk psychology or semantic entailment? A reply to Rips and Conrad (1989) . Psychological Review . 97 . 565–570 . 10.1037/0033-295x.97.4.565.

Notes and References

1. p.566
2. p.567