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Word-formation
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Semasiology
The branch of the study of language…
Word-formation
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Semasiology
The branch of the study of language concerned with the meaning of words and word equivalents
The main objects are: word-formating, types of meaning, polysemy, homonymy, synonymy, antonymy
Meaning is defined as an object, relationships, or a class of objects or relationships in the outside world that is referred to by a word.
Main types
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Grammatical meaning
may be defined as the component of meaning reccurent in identical sets of individual forms of different words
the tense meaning in the word-form of verbs (asked, thought, walked)
the case meaning in the word-forms of various nouns (girls, boys, night`s)