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<p>utrecht</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Lexical relatedness''' is a principle proposed in Williams (1981a) to account for [[bracketing paradox]]es, which says that X can be related to Y if X and Y differ only in a head position or in the non-head position. Williams views the question of bracketing paradoxes from the perspective of a concept of relatedness between lexical entries. In his terms, the problem is to explain how words such as ''hydroelectric'' and ''hydroelec-tricity'' are related to each other, and to the words ''electric'' and ''electricity''. From a morphological point of view one has to assign the following structure to ''hydroelectricity''&lt;nowiki&gt;: [hydro [electric+ity]]. However, the semantically motivated structure for this word is [[hydro+electric] ity]. Williams' solution runs as follows. He assigns the structure [hydro [electric+ity]] to this word, and due to the principle of Lexical Relatedness he can relate &lt;/nowiki&gt;''hydroelectricity'' (= X) to ''hydroelectric'' (= Y), since they differ only in the head position (= -''ity'').<br /> <br /> === Link ===<br /> <br /> [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Lexical+relatedness&amp;lemmacode=611 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]<br /> <br /> {{dc}}<br /> [[Category:Morphology]]</div>

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