Seme (semantics)

Template:Short description Seme, the smallest unit of meaning recognized in semantics, refers to a single characteristic of a sememe. These characteristics are defined according to the differences between sememes. The term was introduced by Template:Ill in the 1930s and developed by Template:Ill in the 1960s. It is the result produced when determining the minimal elements of meaning, which enables one to describe words multilingually. Such elements provide a bridge to componential analysis and the initial work of ontologies.

See also

• Asemic writing
• Meme
• Phoneme
• Memetics
• Mimicry

Further reading

• Functional Approach to Semantic Heterogeneity
• Ontological Semantics and the Study of Meaning in Linguistics, Philosophy and Computational Linguistics