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Latest revision as of 14:36, 7 May 2008
In semantics, componential analysis is the idea that the meaning of words can be analyzed as construed from basic semantic primitives (features or markers).
Examples
Two famous examples of componential analysis are informally paraphrased in (i) and (ii):
(i) x kill y = x cause y to be not alive
(ii) x is a bachelor = x is an unmarried man
Comment
Componential analysis is typical of the so-called Katz-Fodor-semantics, Generative Semantics, and Jackendoff's Conceptual Structure.
Link
Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics
References
- Jackendoff, R. 1983. Semantics and cognition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
- Jackendoff, R. 1990. Semantic Structures. Cambridge, MIT-Press.
- Katz, Jerrold. 1972. The philosophy of linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- McCawley, J. 1968. Lexical insertion in a grammar without Deep Structure. In Papers from the fourth regional meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Darden, B.J., Bailey, C.-J.N. & Davison, A. (eds.), Chicago.
