Sememe

义位

A term used in some semantics theories to refer to a minimal unit of meaning. For some, a sememe is equivalent to the meaning of a morpheme; for others it is a feature of meaning, equivalent to the notion of ‘semantic component’ or ‘semantic feature’ in some theories. The term sememics is used as part of the description of strata in stratificational grammar; the sememic stratum, which handles the systems of semantic relationship between lexical items, is here distinguished from the hypersememic stratum, at which is analysed the relationship between language and the external world. Semotactics, in this approach, involves the study of the sequential arrangement of sememes.

某些语义学理论用来指意义的最小单位，对有的人而言“义位”则等于意义特征，相当于某些理论中的“语义成分”或“语义特征”。义位学一词被层次语法用来描写一个层次，即“义位层”，这个层次处理词项之间的语义关系系统，区别于超义位层，后者是分析语言与外界关系的层次。这种语法中的义位结构学是研究义位的序列配置方式。