In linguistics, troponymy is the presence of a 'manner' relation between two lexemes.
The concept was originally proposed by Christiane Fellbaum and George Miller. p.566 Some examples they gave are "to nibble is to eat in a certain manner, and to gorge is to eat in a different manner. Similarly, to traipse or to mince is to walk in some manner". p.567
Troponymy is one of the possible relations between verbs in the semantic network of the WordNet database.
See also
Hyponymy and hypernymy
Is-a Hypernymy (and supertype) Hyponymy (and subtype) Has-a Holonymy Meronymy
Lexical chain Ontology (information science) Polysemy Semantic primes Semantic satiation Thematic role Word sense Word sense disambiguation
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