Poll: Which is the basic unit of meaning?
Which is the basic unit of meaning? |
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Votes: 543
Comments: 9
Added: October 2005
Comments:
| asadsafe - 20th October 2005 03:10 |
| could you show me englishgramar tenses |
| zac - 14th November 2007 06:47 |
| Its the word of course. You need words for sentences. |
| Caroline - 5th January 2008 02:13 |
| Without the whole sentence, it's not always possible to understand the meaning. Take the word "lighter" as an example. Does this mean a cigarette lighter, or does it refer to an object that is not as heavy as another? Or a room with a bigger window than the last? |
| nndou - 30th May 2008 16:42 |
| "you need word for sentences"...ya, and don't you need character for words? so this is the basic unit? |
| huey - 1st January 2009 16:29 |
| I voted for word, but I think the basic unit of meaning is morpheme, which is more accurate than just ,,word´´ |
| moaj - 15th October 2010 21:40 |
| words can have meaning as parts of a sentence. some words dont have meaning like at, of , etc. But sentences as they convey a message on communication with others, can be the basic unit of meaning. However, it is reasonable to think that both words and sentences as the basic umits of meaning. |
| Vishwas - 4th September 2011 14:01 |
| A sentence fulfills all six functions of language (Jakobson). A single word does not. |
| moo - 23rd September 2011 13:23 |
| Neither, it*s the morpheme. |
| Rob - 11th October 2011 10:42 |
| It's not the morpheme because some morphemes have no meaning on their own. The word dog is a word and a morpheme but the word dogs has two morphemes, dog and s. s has no meaning on its own. Therefore the smallest unit of meaning is the word. |
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