Ցուցանշանից խորհրդանշանին անցումը լեզվում

Abstract

The propositions that naming is performed on the basis of the properties of the named
realia and that the word consists of morphemes, allow us to conclude that the morpheme
is actually the designation of the given realia’s property. The meaning of the property
does not exhaust the content of the morpheme fully; it is rather its primary and most
essential component, besides which there exists another one – a somewhat blurred and
still existing phonetic meaning of sounds that are constituents of the morpheme. From
the point of view of referential (extralinguistic) meaning the morpheme can be
characterized as a symbol (according to Ch. S. Peirce’s terminology). However, the full
semiotic characteristics of the morpheme should also take into account the
intralinguistic meaning, based on the meanings of its components, thus acknowledging
not only the symbolic but also the index aspect of the morpheme.