THE LEXICAL-SEMANTIC CLASSIFICATION OF WHOLE–PART RELATIONS IN THE UZBEK AND RUSSIAN LANGUAGES
Keywords:
meronymy, holonymy, partonymy, Uzbek, Russian, lexical semantics, classificationAbstract
This article presents a comparative classification of lexical units motivated by whole–part relations in Uzbek and Russian. Building on standard distinctions in lexical semantics and mereology (component/part, member/collective, substance/material, and figurative/derivative relations), I outline diagnostic criteria, give illustrative examples from both languages, and discuss typological similarities and language-specific devices (possessive marking, collective morphology, compounding, and idiom formation). The goal is a practical taxonomy usable for lexicography, corpus annotation, and computational lexicons (e.g., bilingual WordNet linking). The paper closes with implications for annotation practice and directions for future corpus-based research.
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