Sunday, March 11, 2012

Lexical Field or Semantic Field

Lexical field or Medan Makna is a set of interrelated senses based on conceptual field that is the lexemes are interrelated in sense. They are incompatible each other.
for example: Colour >> red, green, black, white, etc.
                    Animal >> horse, cat, dog, etc.
All members of a semantic field should cover the entire spectrum. the basic term's meaning is not included in the meaning of any other term.
A basic term is the dominant of a subsystem. the differences then between basic terms and members of the subsystem is the frequency of use or general lexeme to specific.

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