| Lemma | linguistic meaning |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Nida (1948) |
| Titolo | The identification of morphemes |
| Sinonimi | grammatical meaning (inglese) |
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| Citazioni | 'Grammatical' or 'linguistic meaning' depends on the occurrence of a form in significanti situations defined only or at least primarily in terms of the linguistic environments. [...] The linguistic meaning of a morpheme can be defined in terms of several criteria: (1) the types of construction in which it occurs, (2) its frequency of occurrence, and (3) its productiveness in new combinations. The first of these are linguistically the most meaningful The linguistic meaning of 'boy' includes such facts as the following: 'boy' occurs as the subject of a sentence, the object of a verb, and the second member in a prepositional phrase, it combines with derivative formatives such as '-isch' ('boyisch'); and it occurs in an exclamatory phrase 'Oh boy!'. If we disregard entirely the biosocial distinction in the meanings of 'boy' and 'girl' , we can still say that the linguistic meaning of these two words differ in that 'boy' occurs in a type of exclamatory phrase from which 'girl' is excluded. |