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systemic meaning of the word (usually registered in dictionaries)
(statistics), occasional — those that do not belong to the systemic
meaning of the word, but are evoked by the context or the situation
only in the act of communication (they should be differentiated
from actualized peripheral semes) (lies and statistics).
Systemic semes are generally known to the whole collective
of speakers (football); personal — existing in the individual
language competence (football, fan).
According to capacity of differentiation semes are integral
and differential. Integral — common for the meanings of a group
of words, differential — differentiate between the meanings of
compared words.
According to the degree of abstraction, within integral semes
it is possible to single out the archseme is the most common seme
of an individual lexical meaning. Archseme is the center of the
sememe, it is autonomous; several archsemes can be singled out
for each meaning. For example, tie “a piece of clothes, a
decoration, a piece of material”; table “a piece of furniture, a
man-made object, an inanimate object”.
According to the degree of explication — explicit
(represented in the meaning directly) and implicit (included in
other semes). For example, tractor: “agricultural machine”
(+artefact+man-made+object).
According to the character of meaning — assertive
(rendering objectively the constant signs of the denotate man —
male, adult; student — young, studies) and dispositional (assigned
to the “perfect” denotate man — strong, wise; student —
intelligent, with the desire to get knowledge, leading an interesting
and merry life); sportsman: doing sports + healthy, with a good
figure, strong; distinct (white, black) and indistinct (age: young,
old); positive (reflecting the sign existing in the denotate) and
negative (the absence of a certain sign); a book/ a notebook; a
theatre / a circus; negative are inclusive (negate the existence of
specific features glider — flying means without an engine, stool —

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