This document discusses componential analysis, an approach that tries to discover the ultimate meaning units that systematically compose words. It analyzes words by describing them with relatively small sets of general elements of meaning, called components, markers, or sememes. Researchers like Katz, Foder, Weinreich, and Berwisch applied this approach to analyze kinship terms, color vocabulary, words for animals, and botanical terms by identifying parameters like sex that form word sets based on relationships.
2. -It tries to discover the ultimate meaning units out of which a particular set of words appears
to composed in some systematic way
-small set of very general elements of meaning called components,markers,
Or sememes.
-katz ,foder,weinreich and berwisch tried to describe words in term
of relatively small sets of general elements of meaning which some
also called universals.
3. -kinship terms ,colour vocabulary ,words for animals and botanical
World.
-sex forms one of the parameters in kinship terminology. So sets like mother-father, brother-
sister,father-daughter,uncle aunt are formed
But sex is also the basis of such other sets as
Man woman
Bull cow
Boar sow
Cock hen
Dog bitch
etc.
