Word Meaning and Semantic Feature.ppt

文档介绍：Word Meaning and Semantic Features
1. Conventionality
Most English words are conventional, arbitrary symbols; consequently, there is no intrinsic relation between the sound-symbol and its sense.
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose.
By any name would smell as sweet. ”
Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
2 Motivation
Motivation refers the connection between word-symbol and its sense.
Motivation can arise in three major ways:
1)      ic motivation
2)      Morphological motivation
3)      Semantic motivation
“The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around:
It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
…
types of word Meaning
A. Grammatical meaning
1) Word-class
2) Inflectional paradigm
“Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gayre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths