Students: Chapter Resources
Chapter 9
Checklist of Key Notions
9.1 The structuralist approach
- decomposition
- meaning component
- structuralism
- de Saussure
- sign
- arbitrariness
- paradigm
- paradigmatic relations
- contrastive property
- meaning relations
- syntagm
- syntagmatic relations
- syntagmatic property
- selectional restrictions
9.2 Applying the structuralist approach to meaning
9.3 Semantic features
- feature semantics
- feature
- ideal properties of features: primitive, general, universal, linguistically motivated
- meaning postulates
- types of features: seme, classeme, marker, distinguisher
9.4 Semantic formulae
9.5 Semantic primes
- Natural Semantic Metalanguage
- Wierzbicka
- semantic primitives/primes
- undefinability
- universality
Artwork
- Figure 9.1 The focus of structuralist semantics
- Figure 9.2 Three paradigms defined by the syntagm /set/
- Figure 9.3 A trivial feature matrix for co-hyponyms in the animal taxonomy
- Table 9.1 Meaning components of English and Japanese terms for 'brother'
- Table 9.2 Basic structuralist concepts
- Table 9.3 Features and a feature matrix for the six general person terms
- Table 9.4 Binary features and logical relations
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