Sememe

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Sememe (Greek semaino - mean, signify) - semantical language unit of meaning, correlative to morpheme.

There are five type of sememes, 2 denotational and 3 conotational, while conotational are occuring only in phraze units (they do not reflect the denotat )[1]:

  1. Denotational 1: Straight denotation, for example "head" (body);
  2. Denotational 2: Secondary, denotation by resemblance with other denotation: "head" (ship);
  3. Conotational 1:
  4. Conotational 2:
  5. Conotational 3:


[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Pragmatic and syntagmatic aspects of phraseology, Krassnoff (in russian)

[edit] Bibliography

  • Bazell, Charles Ernest (1954). The sememe in "Litera", I, 17-31.. Reprinted in: Hamp, Eric P., Fred W. Householder, Robert Austerlitz (eds.) (1966). Readings in linguistics II. University of Chicago Press, 329-40.

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