Sememes

Unit of meaning: 

sememes – plural of sememe, the interpretation given to a morpheme (a language unit).

A sememe (from Greek σημαίνω (sēmaínō) 'mean, signify') is a semantic language unit of meaning, analogous to a morpheme. 

The concept is relevant in structural semiotics.

There are five types of sememes: two denotational and three connotational, the latter occurring only in phrase units (they do not reflect the denotation)

The operational definition of synonymy depends on the distinctions between these classes of sememes.

For example, the differentiation between what some academics call cognitive synonyms and near-synonyms depends on these differences.

A related concept is that of the episememe (as described in the works of Leonard Bloomfield), which is a unit of meaning corresponding to the tagmeme.

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