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A Model of Semantic Structure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Franklin C. Southworth
Franklin C. Southworth*
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University of Pennsylvania
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Abstract

A system of linguistic description is proposed which distinguishes semological and grammatical levels. The first consists of units organized in multi-dimensional structures; those units can be combined into rudimentary ‘sentences’, each of which is related to numerous surface structures which are all paraphrases of each other. Implications are drawn for descriptive theory, lexicography, cross-cultural studies, and historical semantics.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , March 1967 , pp. 342 - 361
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Copyright © 1967 by Linguistic Society of America

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