CONCEPTUAL TAXONOMIC ANALYSIS OF SEMANTIC CLASSES OF WORDS

CONCEPTUAL TAXONOMIC ANALYSIS OF SEMANTIC CLASSES OF WORDS

Author:  A.M. Plotnikova

Affiliation:  Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin

Abstract: 
The report studies correlation between semantic classes of words and cognitive categories. Conceptual taxonomic analysis is applied to considering semantic field ‘state’. Notions of ‘taxonomic depth’ and ‘taxonomic width’ of semantic field are introduced.

Keywords:  conceptual taxonomic analysis, semantic field, taxonomic depth, taxonomic width