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Semantic Fields
First proposed by Trier in the 1930s, semantic field theory proposes that a group of words with interrelated meanings are categorizable under a larger conceptual domain. This entire entity is thereby known as a semantic field. The words boil, bake, fry, and roast, for example, would fall under the larger semantic category of cooking. Semantic field theory asserts that lexical meaning cannot be fully understood by looking at a word in isolation, but by looking at a group of semantically related words. Semantic relations can refer to any relationship in meaning between lexemes, including synonymy (big and large), antonymy (big and small), hypernymy and hyponymy (rose and flower), converseness (buy and sell), and incompatibility. Semantic field theory does not have concrete guidelines that determine the extent of semantic relations between lexemes and the abstract validity of the theory is a subject of debate.

Event Structures
Event structure is defined as the semantic relation of a verb and its syntactic properties. Verbs are separated into two categories: telic verbs and atelic verbs. Telic verbs describe a change of state involving an end-point (catch and rescue) and atelic verbs refer to actions or events that are in themselves complete regardless of the presence of an endpoint or conclusion, such as stative verbs (for example, thinking, or the state of being happy).