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A-Z 1131structural analysisIn transformational grammar, the presentation of sentences in the form of a treediagram or labeled bracketing as the output of the application of transformationalrules.transformational grammarReferencesstructural meaning lexical meaning vsgrammatical meaningstructural semanticsCollective term for different descriptive models in lexical semantics, all of which arebased on the basic principles of structuralism. The common characteristics of theseapproaches are: (a) the meaning of a word cannot be described in isolation, but is afunction of its relation to other lexemes of the same conceptual area ( lexical fieldtheory, semantic relation); (b) the whole meaning of a word can be analyzed as smallersemantic elements ( componential analysis, lexical decomposition). As inphonology, this assumption is based on the hypothesis that there is a universal inventoryof semantic components from which every individual language makes specific selections.Structural semantics sets out to describe the structure of the lexicon by analyzingindividual meanings and semantic relations like synonymy and antonymy, amongothers.ReferencesBendix, E.H. 1966. Componential analysis of general vocabulary: the semantic structure of a set ofverbs in English, Hindi, and Japanese. The Hague.Coseriu, E. 1970. Einführung in die strukturelle Betrachtung des Wortschatzes. Tübingen.Geckeler, H. 1971. Strukturelle Semantik und Wortfeldtheorie. Munich.——(ed.) 1978. Strukturelle Bedeutungslehre. Darmstadt.——1981. Structural semantics. In H.-J.Eikmeyer and H.Rieser (eds), Words, worlds, and contexts:new approaches in word semantics. Berlin. 381–413.