Semantic structure analysis (or SSA) is a
methodology
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for systematic description of the
intended meaning of
natural language
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, developed by the
Summer Institute of Linguistics
SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics) is an evangelical Christian non-profit organization whose main purpose is to study, develop and document languages, especially those that are lesser-known, in order to e ...
. The name is also used for
Eugene Nida
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Life
Eugene Albert Ni ...
's technique for mapping
lexical
Lexical may refer to:
Linguistics
* Lexical corpus or lexis, a complete set of all words in a language
* Lexical item, a basic unit of lexicographical classification
* Lexicon, the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge
* Lexica ...
items from a
source language to a
receptor language in
translation
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theory.
See also
*
Semantic analysis
Notes and references
Bibliography
* Beekman, John, John C. Callow, and Michael F. Kopesec (1981).
The Semantic Structure of Written Communication'. Dallas:
Summer Institute of Linguistics
SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics) is an evangelical Christian non-profit organization whose main purpose is to study, develop and document languages, especially those that are lesser-known, in order to e ...
.
* Bouchard, Denis. ''The Semantics of Syntax: a minimalist approach to grammar''.
* Bruce, Leslie P. (1998). "The semantics of reconciliation in three languages". ''
Notes on Linguistics
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It originated as a subscription journal, from 1975 through 2001, intended to share practical, theoretical, a ...
'' 83: 9–34.
* Casad, Eugene H., ed., (1996).
Cognitive Linguistics in the Redwoods the expansion of a new paradigm in linguistics''. Cognitive Linguistics Research 6. Berlin:
Mouton de Gruyter
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History
The roots of the company go back to 1749 when Frederick the Great granted the Königliche Realschule in B ...
.
* Erikson, Richard J. (1999). "The damned and the justified in Romans 5:12–21". In Jeffrey T. Reed, Stanley E. Porter (eds).
Discourse Analysis and the New Testament approaches and results''.
Continuum International Publishing Group
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.
* Ohori, Toshio (1996). "Case Markers and Clause Linkage: toward a semantic typology". In Casad (1996): 693–712.
* Palmer, R. F. (ed.). ''Grammar and Meaning: essays in honor of Sir John Lyons''.
* Tuggy, David (1996).
The thing that people talk that way. The question Why? In Casad (1996): 713–752.
* Wierzbicka, Anna. ''Understanding cultures through their key words: English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese''.
External links
Semantic Structure Analysis— a bibliography of SIL-authored, theoretical-SSA publications at their official website,
Ethnologue.com
Semantic Structure Analysisref>Structure analysis — a bibliography of SIL-authored, applied-SSA publications, also at Ethnologue.com
Discourse analysis
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