Semema

In semantics and structuralist linguistics, the abstract meaning of a morpheme, either a gramma or lexeme, decomposable into binary oppositions called semas is called semma. Comparative linguistics studies the field in which systematic correspondences between phonemes and sememes (on the one hand, sounds and on the other units of meaning) of the words calco (also called cognates) are established. By means of the comparison between living languages ​​already grouped, an attempt is made to reconstruct the common ancestor, lost in many cases.

For the glossosmatic there is a basic unit of minor meaning, the noema, which is each of the semantic features of semema. In some branches of the philosophy of the language also the term semema is used to refer to a linguistic sign in diverse paradigms of the structuralism. Bibliography

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