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Metonymy, meronymy, and mereology refer to distinct semantic and ontological relations
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Metonymy, meronymy, and mereology represent distinct semantic and ontological concepts, distinguishing figures of substitution from part-whole lexical relations and formal philosophical theories.

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The evolution of lexical semantics dynamics, directionality, and drift
2023 · cited by 8
Paper [1] distinguishes metonymy and meronymy as separate semantic relations involved in lexical change.
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The claim is specific, falsifiable, and supported by linguistics and ontology literature, which treats metonymy (a figure of speech/semantic shift), meronymy (part-whole lexical relation), and mereology (formal philosophical theory of parts and wholes) as distinct categories.

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Hijerarhijski leksičko-semantički odnosi u hrvatskome jeziku
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Paper [3] outlines meronymy as part-whole relations and notes that mereology is the philosophical study of such relations, distinguishing them clearly from other semantic domains.
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