| SEMANTICS is the area of language concerned with word
meaning.
Some notes on semantics:
 | Semantic roles - inform the reader regarding "who, what, when,
where, why, how" etc. |
| Semantic categories - the inherent, context-free properties of
lexical items. A semantic category is a list of words with
associated meanings (e.g. animate nouns, abstract nouns, nouns
describing place, personal names, verbs of thinking, verbs of asking,
etc.) |
| Semantic range - describes the range of meaning a word can
have. One-to-one correspondence between an English and Latin
word does not exist. It is necessary to consider the complete semantic
range of a Latin word relative to the context it appears in before
making a final word choice in translation. Dictionaries give the
semantic range in their definition of a word. The order in which
these meanings appear is often "base meaning, common meaning,
stem meaning, extended meaning, metaphoric meaning, poetic meaning,
contextual meaning". |
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General Topics
Part of Speech
Morphology
Syntax
Semantics
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