COMPONENTIAL ANALYSIS AND

SEMANTIC DECOMPOSITION

Ratna NurhidayatiPBI-C-V1211204101

COMPONENTIAL ANALYSIS

Definition : The analysis of a set of related

linguistic items, especially word meanings, into combinations of features in terms of which each item may be compared with every other.

Example : man-male-mature-human woman –female-mature-human girl –female-immature-human bull-male-mature-bovine

SEMANTIC DECOMPOSITION

Definition : Lexical decomposition is the belief that

word meanings can be built up compositionally from the meanings of simpler words.

Example: Stallion = Horse + Male

In this case, 'stallion' is built up from the more primitive concepts 'horse' and 'male‘.

Refference :Cruse, Alan, Meaning in Language: An

Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/componential+analysis

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