Types of word meaning. Denotational and connotational components of lexical meaning
Types of word meaning The lexical meaning The grammatical meaning The part-of-speech (lexico-grammatical) meaning The lexical meaning of the word is the meaning proper to the given linguistic unit in all its forms and distributions. The word-forms do, does, did, doing, done possess different grammatical meanings of tense, person, number, but in each form they have one and the same semantic component denoting “the process of movement”.