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semeology semiology
semi-affix [Lat. semi- ‘half’]
Cover term for all affix-like derivational ele-ments that also exist as independently
occurring stems. The criteria for classifying elements caught up in this transition from
free to bound status are a series formation (fireproof, waterproof, winterproof) and a
generalization of meaning. ( also semi-prefix, semi-suffix)
semi-morpheme (also cranberry morph,
unique morpheme)
Lexical morpheme that is attached to one (and only one) base morpheme and whose
original meaning can no longer be analyzed synchronically, as e.g. cran-, in cranberry.
Pertinent to the classification of a semi-morpheme is that (a) the morpheme with which it
occurs can be unequivocally classified, (b) the semimorpheme has a distinctive function
in the paradigm (cf. cranberry vs boysenberry and huckleberry), but (c) does not form a
series (by which it would be differentiated from other stems). If a semi-morpheme occurs
in derivations, it is called a pseudomorpheme.
morphology
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semiology (also sematology, semeology,
semiotics, semology)
Term introduced by Saussure (1916) for the sketch of a general theory of signs
subordinate to (social) psychology that studies signs ‘within the framework of social life.’
Linguistics is a discipline that is important for semiology, but none the less secondary to
it, as semiology is concerned with the general properties of all possible signs and also