What is the lexical and grammatical meaning of a word

What is the lexical and grammatical meaning of a word

When school students at lessons of Russian get acquainted with a word, it is important to teacher to report to them that it contains both lexical, and grammatical meaning. Pupils have to learn not interpret semantic word meaning, but also mark out their grammatical features.

The lexical meaning of a word is that sense which comprises a word. You will be able to try to formulate a word meaning and to ask for the help the explanatory dictionary. So, for example, characterizing a semantic component of a word ""school"", one may say, that it ""a type of a construction, the room for training of children"". More exact meaning of this noun can be learned, for example, in the explanatory dictionary by Ojegov. In it you will be able to find out whether it has one lexical meaning or a little, i.e. is unambiguous or multiple-valued.

For example, the word ""iceberg"" designates ""a big congestion of ice or the big ice block which came off a glacier"". The word has no other value. Therefore, it is unambiguous. And here the word" "braid"" can have several interpretation. For example, ""braid"" is ""a type of a hairstyle"" (maiden braid) and also - ""protected at the river of a special form"" (went to bathe to the spit) and, besides, it also ""instrument of labor"" (it is good to whet a scythe). Thus, the word ""braid"" is multiple-valued.

The grammatical meaning of a word is a certain set of feature allowing a word to change the form. So, at a verb are signs of time, the person, number, etc., and at a participle - time, the present or a past, a sort, number and a case. If the main component of a lexical meaning is concluded, as a rule, in its root, then the easiest to determine grammatical meaning of a word by the termination (inflection). For example, on the termination of a noun simply grammatical features: Nominative case, neutral gender, singular, the second inducement. Besides, one may say, that the word is a common noun, inanimate. If you try to define a lexical meaning of the word ""morning"", then, for certain, specify that this time of day following after night i.e. the beginning of day. If you learn to define correctly lexical and grammatical meaning of words, then will be able to make beautiful on expressiveness and syntactic designs, right in terms of grammar and the use (phrases and offers).

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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