tailieunhanh - Ebook Lexicology: Part 2 - ĐH Công Nghiệp TPHCM

(NB) Ebook Lexicology: Part 2 continues to provide readers with the content of the following three chapters chapter 4 A grammatical aspect of language or semasiology semantics, semantic properties, types of semantic components denotion and connotation, polysemy and context, sematic grops of words, no sense and nonsense anomaly, phraseology chapter 5, chapter 6 A social aspect of language change language. | Chapter 4 A Grammatical Aspect of Language Semantics or Semasiology Tile branch of Linguistics that specializes in the study of meaning is called Semantics or Semasiology. The name conies from the Greek sẽina sign sẽmantikos - significant . Words have both sound-form and meaning. Lexicology deals with meaning only. Meaning is the inner form of the word or a component of the word through which a concept is conveyed or communicated. 1. Semantic properties 1 Such words as tigress hen mare actress widow girl woman have something in common - that is female which is then called a semantic property tor semantic feature of words Semantic properties help to define words. i no same semantic property may be part of the meaning of many different words. Human is a semantic property that helps to define girl actress widow doctor baby bachelor eildd . The words girl baby child are also distinguished by the semantic property young . So part of the meaning of the words baby and child is that they are human and young The meanings of words have other properties. Words have general semantic properties such as human or animal as well as more specific properties such as parent or horseness that give the word its particular meaning. id 80 2 The same semantic property may occur in words of different parts of speech. Female is part of the meaning of the noun mother of the verb to breast-feed and of the adjective pregnant . Other semantic properties that help account for the meanings of verbs are as follows Semantic property motion contact creation sense Verbs having it bring fall stalk run. hit kiss touch. build imagine make. see hear. feel. The meaning of a word can then be specified by marking plus positively or minus - negatively for the presence or absence of all the semantic properties that define the word as illustrated in the following way woman baby J boy mare courage tosulk 1 T female human - young human young - female human young female - human - young horseness . . . abstract .