Syntagmatic Lexical Relation

A syntagmatic lexical relation is a culturally determined pattern of association between pairs of lexical units (A1-B1, A2-B2, A3-B3…) where the

• two members of each pair (A1 and B1)

  • have compatible semantic components
  • are in a fixed syntactic and semantic relationship to each other, and
  • are typically associated with each other, and

• corresponding members of each pair (A1, A2, A3…)

  • belong to the same lexical category
  • fill the same syntactic position in a syntactic construction, and
  • have the same semantic function.

Structure
	Syntagmatic lexical relations are structured in sets of pairs.