Is a structured set of interrelated lexical variants with different denotational and connotational meanings

The Semantic Structure of a Word

Is the implied information

Implicational meaning

Magnificent, gorgeous, splendid, superb.

Beastly weather, beastly cold (emotional, colloquial, censure, intensity).

Shut up! (displeasure).

There, there – just you sit down! (friendliness )

Terrific ‘frightening’, ‘very, very good’ – terrific beauty.

Ever, quite, absolutely – intensifiers(no denotative m-g)

· associated with the word it refers to and

· what the speakers know about the referent.

· It is a potential often realized in the derivatives (wolf-wolfish).

	Word meaning

Lexico-grammatical meaning Common System of forms and characteristic formulas of semantic and morphological structure and a characteristic set of derivational affixes

- the meaning proper to the linguistic unit in all its forms and distributions

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