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A-Z 1051ReferencesBühler, K. 1934. Sprachtheorie. Jena. (Repr. Stuttgart, 1965.)Innis, R.E. (trans.) 1982. Karl Bühler: semiotic foundations of language theory. New York.semioticssemeIn A.J.Greimas’ semantic theory the basic unit of semantic analysis in the sense of thesmallest distinctive component of meaning, by means of which the whole meaning of alinguistic expression is described in a lexicon entry. ( also semantic feature)ReferencesGreimas, A.J. 1966. Semantique structurale. Paris.componential analysissememe1 In structural semantics the basic semantic unit of the lexicon, which is described viasemes (i.e. the minimal semantic components). In this sense, a sememe corresponds tothe more current term lexeme.2 In Bloomfield’s (1933) terminology, the sememe corresponds to the lexical meaningof a morpheme.ReferenceBloomfield, L. 1933. Language. New York.3 In Greimas’ (1966) terminology, the combination of the nucleus of the seme (i.e.invariant semantic content) with the contextually determined and variable semes.ReferenceGreimas, A.J. 1966. Semantique structurale. Paris.