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<p>utrecht</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Lexical relatedness&#039;&#039;&#039; 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 &#039;&#039;hydroelectric&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;hydroelec-tricity&#039;&#039; are related to each other, and to the words &#039;&#039;electric&#039;&#039; and &#039;&#039;electricity&#039;&#039;. From a morphological point of view one has to assign the following structure to &#039;&#039;hydroelectricity&#039;&#039;&lt;nowiki&gt;: [hydro [electric+ity]]. However, the semantically motivated structure for this word is [[hydro+electric] ity]. Williams&#039; 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;&#039;&#039;hydroelectricity&#039;&#039; (= X) to &#039;&#039;hydroelectric&#039;&#039; (= Y), since they differ only in the head position (= -&#039;&#039;ity&#039;&#039;).<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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