Component analysis

The component analysis is a method of linguistic semantic , which serves the meaning of words or morphemes in components d. H. semantic features or semes , to be broken down. The meaning of morphemes or words is then understood as a hierarchically ordered structure of such semantic components. Hundsnurscher (1970, 42) describes, for example, the meaning of “pond” through the features [-fluous], [+ standing], [+ natural], [-artificial], [-large], [+ small]. In this way, whole word fields can be described systematically.

See also

• Lexical decomposition
• Feature semantics

literature

• Hadumod Bußmann (Ed.) With the collaboration of Hartmut Lauffer: Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft. 4th, revised and bibliographically supplemented edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-520-45204-7 .
• John Lyons : Semantics. Volume I. Beck, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-406-05272-X , p. 327ff.

Web links

Wiktionary: component analysis  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franz Hundsnurscher: Newer Methods of Semantics. An introduction using German examples. Niemyer, Tübingen 1970. ISBN 3-484-25001-1