Componential analysis

The component analysis is a method of linguistic semantics, which serves the meaning of words or morphemes into components, ie to decompose semantic features or Seme. The meaning of the words or morphemes will be interpreted as a hierarchical structure of such semantic components. Hundsnurscher (1970, 42) for example, describes the meaning of " pond " by the features [ -perfect ], [ standing ], [ course ], [- artificially ], [- high ], [ low ]. In this way, one can describe all lexical fields systematically.