MERONYMY OF WORDS EXPRESSING GRASS CARP AND MUSSEL BODY PARTS IN VIETNAMESE AND LAOS

This article examines the meronymy of words expressing grass carp and mussel body parts in Vietnamese Laos. The underlying theory is concept meaning system, meronymy. research methods used by are field linguistic, descriptive, comparative-contrastive methods. surveyed 107 Vietnamese, 91 Laos holonyms meronyms mussels. number mussels more than has 16 lexical gaps compared to Vietnamese. Hence, linguistic picture word sketched. As a result, clarifies similarities differences category thinking Lao people.