Answer to Question #317020 in English for Education

Question

Discuss the difference between Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations. You must give examples of your own.

Answer 1

Syntagmatic relation is a type of sematic relations between words that co-occur in the same sentence or text(Asher, 1994). Paradigmatic relation is a different type of sematic relations between words that can be substituted with another word in the same categories (Hj⊘rland, 2014).

Every item of language has a paradigmatic relationship with every other item which can be substituted for it (such as cat with dog), and a syntagmatic relationship with items which occur within the same construction (for example, in The cat sat on the mat, cat with the and sat on the mat).