Tokarski, Ryszard2015-01-212015-01-212013„Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Językoznawcza”, t. 20, z. 2, 2013, s. 195-204.978-83-61573-56-2978-83-7654-214-01233-8672http://hdl.handle.net/10593/12588The meaning of a word has a layered structure with the clearly distinguished center (prototype, lexical meaning) and – the further towards the peripheries – with semantic connotations more and more weak-established in the system. Giving-up of the purely structuralist understanding of connotations (verified by semantic and morphological derivatives, collocations, repeatable lexical oppositions, or various tests) has created a danger that semantically irrelevant components may be recognized as relevant qualities. The article proposes a rule for verification of weak connotations. Underlying the principle of internal motivation of qualities is the conviction that the meaning of a word is internally structured, while each quality, especially weak connotations, are motivated by the overall structure of meaning and are explained in the context of this structure.plsemantic definitionsemantic connotationword meaningArtykuł