sememe
See also: sémème
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σημαίνω (sēmaínō, “I signify, I mean”), modelled on morpheme. See also -eme and Emic unit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia .
Noun
sememe (plural sememes)
- (linguistics) The smallest unit of meaning; especially, the meaning expressed by a morpheme.
- Coordinate terms: chereme, chroneme, grapheme, lexeme, listeme, morpheme, phoneme, taxeme, toneme
- 1995, Louise Schleiner, Cultural Semiotics, Spenser, and the Captive Woman, Lehigh University Press, page 71,
- Any given word of a natural language in its shared acceptations represents a seme, sememe, or set of sememes, but the profile that we can compile as representing the shared elements in a list of synonymous and parasynonymous words is an artificial construct, an instance of meta-language, thus called a constructed sememe.
- 2007, Edward H. Y. Lim, Raymond S. T. Lee, iJADE Infoseeker: On Using Intelligent Context-Aware Agents for Retrieving and Analyzing Chinese Web Articles, Raymond S. T. Lee, Vincenzo Loia (editors), Computational Intelligence for Agent-based Systems, Springer, page 138,
- Since sememes are enhanced in the sememe network (as shown in Fig. 3), both a topic and an article analysis can rely on the sememe network instead of explicit term matching.
- 2014, Jia-Fei Hong, Verb Sense Discovery in Mandarin Chinese—A Corpus based Knowledge-Intensive Approach, Springer, page 58,
- HowNet organizes all the sememes into several trees, and each sememe is considered a node of a tree.
Derived terms
- sememic
- sememically
- sememics
Related terms
- monoseme
- semantic
- seme
Translations
smallest unit of linguistical meaning
|
Further reading
- Semantics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Lexical semantics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Semiotics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Emic unit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- ememes