componential analysis
| In linguistics, the analysis of the elements of a word's meaning. The word boy, for example, might be said to have three basic meaning elements (or semantic properties): ‘human’, ‘young’, and ‘male’; and so might the word murder: ‘kill’, ‘intentional’, and ‘illegal’. |
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