Lemma | linguimacrosememe |
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Categoria grammaticale | N |
Lingua | inglese |
Sigla | Nida (1951) |
Titolo | A system for the description of semantic elements |
Sinonimi | |
Rinvii | macrosememe (inglese) |
Traduzioni | |
Citazioni | A macrosememe consists of a class of semantically related macrosemes which constitute a meaningful component of a structure having two or more sememes and at least one episememe. [...] Macrosememes are of two types: (1) 'linguimacrosememes', based upon the linguistic context and (2) 'ethnomacrosememes', based upon the nonlinguistic context. The meaning of a particular structure, e.g. 'applesauce', consists of all the macrosememes which such a form possesses. These include (1) an endocentric linguimacrosememe (the form 'applesauce' has substantially the same distribution as the noun head-word 'sauce') [...] |