Phonetics, Semantics, and Language

Bibliographic Data

ID2874832
AuthorsWallace L Chafe, Wallace Chafe (corresponding author)
Year1962
Volume38
Issue4
Pages335
Publication date1962-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/410669
OpenAlexW2323460955
LanguageEN
Citations received9

The term semantic structure is one that is often encountered these days. Some very rewarding effort has gone into the study of phenomena embraced by this term, but there is still no clear picture of the relationship between semantic structure, whatever it is, and language structure as we know it. One view, and probably the most explicit, has been that ‘semology’ constitutes a third subdivision of language, on a par with phonology and grammar (or ‘morphology‘). I am going to present here a somewhat different view, based on a proposed parallelism between phonology and grammar and their respective ties to the nonlinguistic universe. If this view is found to have some validity, it may serve to help us in our understanding of the interrelationships of all three of the phenomena listed in the title above

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