Semantics

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Across
  1. 2. The approach to meaning that distinguishes between sound-form, concept, and referent (11 letters)
  2. 4. The smallest meaningful unit of form, which can be free or bound (8 letters)
  3. 6. The aspect of lexical meaning that reflects the speaker’s attitude toward what is spoken about (12 letters)
  4. 7. The result of semantic change in the connotational aspect when a word acquires a more positive emotive charge (e.g., minister “servant” → “civil servant of high rank”) (11 letters)
  5. 9. The result of semantic change in the denotational aspect when a word’s meaning becomes narrower (e.g., hound → only hunting dog) (13 letters)
  6. 10. The type of meaning that is proper to a linguistic unit in all its forms and distributions (7 letters)
Down
  1. 1. The kind of association based on similarity of meanings (e.g., hand of a clock) (8 letters)
  2. 3. The approach to meaning that studies words in action, defining meaning as information conveyed from speaker to listener (10 letters)
  3. 5. The type of motivation based on a direct connection between phonetic structure and meaning (e.g., cuckoo) (10 letters)
  4. 8. The unit resulting from componential analysis that represents the smallest distinctive semantic feature (4 letters)