Actually, I want to know what are the factors to notice in determining semantic features of different parts of speech.
I recognize some of them like +/- animate, +/- human, +/- male, and +/- young.
But are there any other features? For example, how can I identify different semantic features for words such as book and notebook?
What about contextual and co-textual features? For example, book can be both a verb and a noun.
Dear Colleague,
You may get benefit from:
https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/6652/how-i-can-identify-semantic-features/12327
https://www.slideshare.net/hp2040/semantics-61566952
Dear Colleague,
You may get benefit from reading different refrences.
Are you interested especially in the semantics of compounding (since notebook is a compound noun)? The best discussion I know of this topic is in an unlikely place, _Word Meaning and Montague Grammar_ by David Dowty. You don't have to know any Montague Grammar to understand Dowty's very insightful discussion of the meanings of compounds. Some compounds have unpredictable meanings, but they can also be coined freely and have meanings that can only be understood in the context in which they're coined. A good example I remember from real life is harpsichord clothes, which in context meant clothes appropriate for wearing while helping to move the harpsichord. The original meaning of notebook was probably of this type, but over time it's acquired other meanings that aren't predictable from the meanings of its parts; rather, they're best understood as extensions of the original meaning. For example, a notebook computer is one that has roughly the dimensions of a notebook in the original sense.
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