SEMANTICS : LEXICAL MEANING AND GRAMMATICAL MEANING

 

LEXICAL MEANING AND GRAMMATICAL MEANING

A.     The definition of lexical meaning and grammatical meaning

1.      The definition of lexical meaning

According to Richard Nordquist, lexical meaning is refers to the sense or meaning of a word or lexeme as it appears meaning, denotative meaning, and central meaning.

According to English Dictionary, lexical meaning is a word in relation to the physical world or to abstract concepts, without reference to any sentence in which the word may occure compare grammatical meaning, content word.

Based on statement above, we can conclude that lexical meaning is a meaning that based on the word in the dictionary.

2.      The definition of grammatical meaning

Grammatical meaning is meaning that possesedly a stem because grammatical process, such as affixation or tenses.

The second definition from free dictionary, grammatical meaning is the meaning of a word that depends on its role in a sentence.

Based on the statement above, we can conclude that, grammatical meaning is a meaning that based on word formation or word structure.

B.     The example of lexical meaning and grammatical meaning

1.      The example of lexical meaning

Meaning that define in the dictionary is lexical meaning. The example of lexical meaning is the same as in the dictionary, such as:

a.       She angry with her brother : dia marah dengan saudara laki-lakinya.

b.      Two cat : dua kucing

c.       She go to school : dia pergi ke sekolah.

2.      The example of grammatical meaning

The meaning that based on word structure or word formation is grammatical meaning. The example such as:

a.       She angry with her brother : simple present tense

b.      Cat : singular, cats : plural

C.     The differences between lexical meaning and grammatical meaning

The differences between lexical meaning and grammatical meaning is lexical meaning is dominant in content words whereas grammatical meaning is dominant in function word. Lexical meaning just focused on meaning but in grammatical meaning focus on the role of grammatical.

D.     Types of lexical meaning and grammatical meaning

1.      Types of lexical meaning

a.       Denotative/ conceptual meaning

b.      Connotative meaning

c.       Social/ stylistic meaning

d.      Affective meaning

e.       Reflected meaning

f.       Collocative meaning

g.       Thematic meaning

2.      Types of grammatical meaning

a.       Implicit (not expressed formally)

b.      Explicit (always marked morphology)

 

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