c. Antonym
Antonym refers to two words, which contrast. As Halliday and Hasan identified that antonym is the oppositeness of experiential meaning 1985: 80.
Antonym is symbolized by L:A. Examples:
- Mother cannot find a big basket in the market, she find the small one.
The adjectives of big and small are opposite. They are antonymous.
- The girl is beautiful now, although she was an ugly one.
The adjectives of beautiful and ugly are opposite. They are antonymous. d. Hyponym
Hyponym refers to words that have a relation between general class and sub-classes Halliday and Hasan, 1985:80. The general class is called super
ordinate, and the sub- classes called hyponyms Halliday and Hasan, 1985:80. Hyponym is symbolized by L:H.
Example: -
Madelline likes many sports; swimming is her favourite sport.
The noun sports is general class, and swimming is subclass. e. Co-hyponym
Co- hyponym refers to the relation between words into a sub class. Co-hyponym is symbolized by L:Ch.
Examples: He is drinking coca cola and his wife drinks lemon tea. L:Ch
L:Ch
The words coca-cola and lemon tea are subordinates of beverages.
- My mother likes yellow skirt, but my sister likes the blue one.
L:Ch L:Ch
The words yellow and blue are subordinates of colour.
f. Meronym
Meronym refers to or like as a sense of relation that there is another lexical pattern, which contributes to textual meaning Halliday and Hasan, 1985:81.
Strictly speaking, it is a correlation between a whole class and part class. The example relations of meronym are the relation between stem and plant, and
shoulders and body. Meronym is symbolized by L:M. Examples:
- Shoulders are part of body.
L:M L:M
The word shoulders are part of body.
- He has changed the machine; hence, he can ride his car well now.
Machine is one component found in a car.
g. Co-meronym
Co- meronym refers to two words that are included in the same class. Co- meronym is symbolized by L:Cm.
Examples: -
Stem, and leaves are part of plant. L:Cm L:Cm
Stem and leaves are the two lexical items referring to parts of plant.
- Asian people usually have brown skin and flat nose.
L:Cm L:Cm
Skin and nose are the two lexical items referring to part of body.
h. Collocation
Based on Halliday and Hasan collocation refers to cohesive ties between any pair of lexical items that stand to each in some recognizable lexicosemantic
word meanings relation 1976: 285. For instance, collocation occurs between
teacher and teaching, and salmon and sea.