The meaning of GENERIC in linguistics (one last word for now)

[Mark A. Mandel]

Benjamin Zimmer quotes:
   >>>>>
http://amor.rz.hu-berlin.de/~h2816i3x/LexSemantik1.pdf

An expression A is a HYPONYM (i.e. an "undername") of an expression B

**iff everything that falls under B also falls under A**.

                        In this case, B is
called a HYPERONYM (i.e. an "overname"). Examples are 'dog' and
'mammal', 'apple' and 'fruit', 'refrigerator' and 'appliance', 'king'
and 'monarch', 'scarlet' and 'red', 'walk' and 'go'. [...]
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(1) That part is backward: it should be "iff everything that falls under
**A** also falls under **B**". (2) And we also need the requirement that not
everything that falls under B falls under A, because in that case they are
synonyms.

E.g., (1) all dogs (A) are mammals (B), but not all mammals are dogs, so
"dog" is a hyponym of "mammal".

-- Mark A. Mandel
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  "The last word" on ADS-L is like "the last bug" in programming.