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 )<ref>Pragmatic and syntagmatic aspects of phraseology, Krassnoff (in russian)</ref>:
- Denotational 1: Straight denotation, for example "head" (body);
- Denotational 2: Secondary, denotation by resemblance with other denotation: "head" (ship);
- Conotational 1:
- Conotational 2:
- Conotational 3:
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[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.
