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semantic feature

[Subentry of feature, semantic]

Fr    composant sémantique, sème, trait sémantique, trait sémantique distinctif

Synonym(s): distinctive semantic feature, semantic component₂, seme

Related term(s): hyper(o)nym, semantic marker

Domain: Semantics

Source(s): Collinge 1990: 166-167; Cruse 1986: 16 (semantic trait); Crystal 2003: 410 (also "semantic-feature hypothesis (SFH)"); Ducrot & Todorov 1979[trans.]: 265-266 (also "intrinsic semantic feature", "contextual semantic feature"); Eco 1979: 84-85 (semantic marker); ELL: 648; Grimes 1975: 153; Hartmann & Stork 1972: 203 (= semantic property); Kess 1992: 215; Matthews 1997: 333; Nash 1968: 210; Palmatier 1972: 157; Richards etal. 1992: 328-329 (= semantic properties)

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• distinctive semantic feature

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