The Scope Of Semantics

Presentation TopicTHE WORDPresented By Abdul Rehman and Aqeela ZainbPresented To Miss Sunila Aslam

What is Word??

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Word is the basic

unit of Semantics

There are two types of word

Types of word

Full content picture wordForm functional Grammatical Word

Types of word

Full Content Picture words

Those which have proper

meanings such as:

Play,like,beautiful etc.

Form Functional Grammatical Words

These are those words which are little or have no meanings such as:As,To,a,Of etc.

Bloomfield`s

defination of word

•A Minimum free unit that occurs in isolation

In this Bloomfield suggested that we should look for an element smaller than the word a unit of meaning of the morpheme

Example “ Loved _d” in this adore and part clearly shown

But in “took” in this we cannot segment “took” in to the parts

So we cannot define words in terms of morpheme

Term of Morpheme

There are some elements within words that are not grammatical yet equally have little or no meaning

E.g “Cran _cranberry, Straw _strawberry” They don't have independent meaning and

don't occur in any other words But in “Blackberry” it has independent

meaning and occur with other words e.g black board, black bird

More examples “Green finch, Bull finch, chaffinch

Some words are not grammatical

There is no consistency about the numbers of semantic units.

We may recognize with in a word e.g “stallion mare”

But in Giraffe “Male Giraffe _Female Giraffe”

No Consistency

He introduced two kinds of words Transparent Words Opaque Words

Ullman`s Theory

These are words those meaning can be determined from the meaning of their parts.

Examples “Chopper. Doorman

Transparent word

These are those words whose meaning cannot be determined from the meaning of their parts.

Examples “Axe and Poster

Opaque words

All these considerations may suggest that we should abord out the idea that the word is a natural unit for semantics.

However useful it may be for the dictionary maker

Conclusion

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