s is in the identification of synonyms, because if two words share atoms of meaning, they are synonymous.: John is a bacheloris an unmarried mananalysis serves quite well for the analysis of fairly uncompleted words (nouns, adjectives, some verbs), but there are whole areas of the vocabulary of the language that don »t lend themselves for componential analysis.Warren makes a distinction between synonyms and variants. She says that we have synonyms if the words have similar meaning and if they are interchangeable without affecting meaning in some context or contexts. Variants are words which have similar meaning but without the interchangeability in some contexts.: Extending Deep far below; profound the surface.
`Deep« and `profound» has always been considered synonyms and it «s true they are interchangeable but it» s also true that in some contexts one cannot replace the other.had a deep / profound understanding of the matterriver is deep / profound. They are not interchangeable in this context.: Sweet: candy dialectal variants: pop off stylistic variants: woman connotative variantsone context you use one word and in the other you use the other one.1) lady adult woman 2) female «point here is to try and prove that synonyms exist. The result of this research is quiet distressing. There are no synonyms following Warren »s definition. What Person did was to scrutinize the use of `deep« and `profound». His research is especially valid because he bases his research on lexicographic words, corpus data and importance. The wide range of sources and the number of them is what makes this valid.conclusions: `Deep« and `profound» show a difference in collocability, that is, they tend to collocate with different words. Deep tends to collocate with words of affection, conviction, feeling, regret, satisfaction, sorrow ... Whereas `profound« tends to collocate with words of difference, distaste, effect, failure, influence ... They enter different collocations because they mean slightly different things. They specialize in certain areas of meaning and that makes them slightly different. He also talks about metaphorical status. Metaphorically speaking, they can mean position on the one hand or quality of depth on the other. Only `deep» enters for the position metaphor, but the quality of depth can be expressed by both of them.: deep structure (profound structure) was deep (profound) in thoughtwas deep (profound) in the Middle Ages / profound learning / profound sleep-emotive dichotomy : `deep« and `profound» tend to relate respectively to intellectual and emotive words. The idea is that `deep« tends to collocate with emotive nouns, whereas `profound» tends to collocate with intellectual words.is a difference in the degree of depth and intensity of these words. `Profound« is deeper that `deep». When both are possible, then there is a distinction.: He has a deep understanding of the matter (`pretty good«) has a profound understanding of the matter (`very good») Maurer DW , High F.C. New Words - Where do they come from and where do they go. American Speech., 1982.p.171words associations give us a very useful way to prove this. There are nouns whose inherent meaning is superlative. With such a noun you can only have `profound« because it means deeper.: profound distaste * deep distasterepugnance * deep repugnancecourse in terms of truth-conditions one entails the other one but not vice versa, th...
