Forms’ chapters in the dictionaries of meanings in the Arab heritage A study in light of the theory of Semantic fields

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Faculty of Languages and Translation/ Ahram Canadian University/ Egypt

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This research is an attempt to shed light on the morphosemantic fields that have not received sufficient attention in semantics and lexicon studies. This is done by studying the Forms’ chapters in the dictionaries of meanings, and analyzing them based on the theory of semantic fields. The research included the following points: the limits of the dictionaries of meanings, their objectives and types, the concept of Forms and the content of their sections and previous studies, the theory of semantic fields, the conceptual concept of morphosemantic fields, and the classification of these fields between the center and the margin, and the relationships that appeared in them. The analysis of morphosemantic fields added results that could contribute to the development of the theory of semantic fields. The most important of these results: the morphosemantic fields revealed a systematic linguistic concept that joins the concepts of known concepts such as existents and events. Types of morphosemantic fields showed the central meaning that lies in the formal definition of the forms in terms of categorical affiliation and the meaning of the forme, and the marginal meaning that lies in the actual semantic definition of the Lexem. Various semantic relationships appeared, such as the relationship of Hyponymy that existed between the title of the field and its forms and Lexem, and it was also expressed by the central meaning of the linguistic root of the Lexem. Also, bilateral relationships of Synonymy, Incompatibility and Antonymy.
 
 

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