A sememe (/ˈsɛmiːm/; from Ancient Greek σημαίνω (sēmaínō) 'mean, signify') is a semantic language unit of meaning, analogous to a morpheme. The concept...
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seme or denotational sememe, whereas those with inexactly similar meanings share a broader denotational or connotational sememe and thus overlap within...
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by contrast, is the equivalent in myth of the phonemes, morphemes, and sememes into which structural linguistics divides language, the smallest possible...
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of meaning) or a sememe (larger unit of meaning), and polysemy of a word of phrase is the property of having multiple semes or sememes and thus multiple...
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sought to preserve the context itself by reproducing the original order of sememes, and hence word order—when necessary, reinterpreting the actual grammatical...
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polysemous, polysemy, semantics, semaphore, semasiology, sematic, seme, sememe, semiotic, tetraseme, triseme semi- half Latin semis semiannual, semicolon...
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to a single characteristic of a sememe. These characteristics are defined according to the differences between sememes. The term was introduced by Eric...
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Lojban. aUI 1962 W. John Weilgart Each phoneme is also a morpheme and a sememe, so that a single word can express a complex idea. Ithkuil 1978–2023 John...
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phrase, or symbol) to have multiple meanings (that is, multiple semes or sememes and thus multiple senses), usually related by contiguity of meaning within...
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talk about the same general phenomenon. Synonymy requires the sharing of a sememe or seme, but the semantic field is a larger area surrounding those. A meaning...
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Literal and figurative language Translation Semantic structure analysis Sememe Goddard, Cliff (2013). Semantic Analysis: An Introduction (2nd ed.). New...
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at Wikimedia Commons "Nirukta" at the Encyclopædia Britannica Niruktam sememes The Nighantu and the Nirukta 1967 bilingual Sanskrit-English critical edition...
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originally meant "star" in the astronomical sense, and then went on to adopt the sememe "star", as in a famous entertainer, from English. In this case the words...
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(semantics), a small unit of meaning identified as one characteristic of a sememe Pixley ka Isaka Seme (1881?-June 1951) a founding member of the African...
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The meaning of a glosseme is a noeme, the meaning of either a morpheme (sememe) or a tagmeme (episememe). More generally, he defines any meaningful unit...
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287–310, doi:10.1163/001972409X12562030836859 "Nirukta" at the Encyclopædia Britannica Niruktam sememes Yaska’s Nirukta and his reflections on language...
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and expanded by Henri Wittmann, The narreme is to narratology what the sememe is to semantics, the morpheme is to morphology and the phoneme to phonology...
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branches of linguistics include the lexeme, grammeme, toneme, chereme, sememe, and tagmeme. In linguistics a distinction is made between so-called "emic"...
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the underlying meaning of the grapheme: what linguists sometimes call sememes. This departure therefore is not simply explained by the oft quoted distinction...
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morpheme-phonemes each with an associated meaning, i.e. each morpheme = a phoneme = a sememe. Additionally, short nasal vowels (marked with an asterisk) are used for...
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polysemous, polysemy, semantics, semaphore, semasiology, sematic, seme, sememe, semiotic, tetraseme, triseme semi- half Latin semis semiannual, semicolon...
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lexicogrammatical stratum. The morpheme as the unit on the morphemic stratum. The sememe as the unit on the semantic stratum. In contrast to generativist approaches...
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Neurocognitive Linguistics (NCL). His early work also developed the notion of "sememe" as a semantic object, analogous to the morpheme or phoneme in linguistics...
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Learned Societies. pp. 56–57. Trager, Edith (Fall 1956). "Superfix and Sememe: English Verbal Compounds". General Linguistics. 2: 1–14 – via ProQuest...
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classification of deixis. The operands of the base are drawn from a dictionary of sememes (meaningful concepts) which are by definition non-lexical in JG and may...
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