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SEMANTIC CONSTITUENTS AND SENSE RELATION 1. Semantic Components 1.1 Semantic Features (Components) Semantic features are also called sense components, semantic markers or sememes. The features or components help us to index the meanings of words, separate the various meanings of individual words, and help us to analyze relationships between similar or different words. Componential analysis originated with the work of Trubetzkoy (1939) and the Prague School of Linguistics (mainly in phonology) (Liu Run-qing, 2002), but it is perhaps better known now as semantic feature analysis. As we know, eve