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Componential Analysis of Lexicon 　　Abstract： Semantics is about the study of meaning. In the field of semantics， componential analysis is an indisapensable approach to the study of meaning which analyses a lexeme into a set of sense components. This paper aims to analyze the strength and limitations of this approach. Although componential analysis has some limitations and unsolved problems， the functions of this technique in respects of denotation the conceptual meaning of lexemes， comparison among lexemes， judgment of the appropriateness of the lexeme match， evaluation of the truth of senten