27 Mar sememe

The smallest unit of meaning in a language. A sememe can be a word or part of a word. There may be rare cases when a phrase can constitute a sememe. The way you can tell it is a sememe is if it holds meaning alone, without needing other parts of a word or other words.
Keywords: word
natural language
semantics
lexical
linguistics
meaningful
expressiveness
References: comprehension
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information/entropy
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natural language
semantics
syntax
words/morphology