An origin or being,

The act or time to be born,

Birth-

The denotative meaning is

The denotative meaning is a linguistic expression for a concept or a name for an individual object (the conceptual content of a word).

Person (personal nouns).

Group (collective nouns),

Matter (material nouns),

The common denominator of all the meanings of words belonging to a lexico-grammatical class of words (LGC).

Generic terms are words - representatives of lexico-grammatical meaning, substituting any word of the class:

· significative, if the referent (denotatum) is a concept (grief, sorrow, happiness) or

· demonstrative if the referent is an individual object (a table, a chair).

The pragmatic component of denotation is connotational meaning based on the complex associations of verbal or situational contexts:

1. the speaker’s attitude – slay::kill,

2. approval or disapproval – clique::group, hireling;

3. the speaker’s emotions – mummy::mother,

4. degree of their intensity – adore::love).

Semantic components (semes) of the denotative meaning:

MAN + HUMAN + ADULT + MALE

WOMAN+ HUMAN +ADULT - MALE

BOY +HUMAN - ADULT + MALE

GIRL + HUMAN - ADULT - MALE

POLYCEMY reflects the possibility of using the same name in secondary nomination for objects possessing common features (proximity) which are sometimes only implied in the original meaning (implicational):

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