Semantics of ownership

Rudmin, Floyd W.

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Document type:: Book

Collection:: POP - Possession, Ownership, Property

Title:: Semantics of ownership: a study based on free recall and on explicit judgements

Author:: Rudmin, Floyd W.

Year of publication:: 1983

Language:: English

Subject:: Besitz; Eigentum

Topic:: C - Psychology

Shelfmark:: C/R916

Access:: Free access

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.33510/pop.AC14489026

two semantic fields. One field was colors, the other the "have" family of verbs. In the latter study, they examined 29 "have" verbs, including "own", using two difterent semantic tasks. One group of subjects (N=17) did a tree construction task in which they successively paired verbs and clusters of verbs on the basis of maximum similarity. The other group (N=41) did a direct grouping task in which they sorted the verbs into groups based on similar meanings. The number of groups and the group definitions were determined by each subject. The results of both studies showed that "own" clustered with "have", "belong", "hold", "keep", and "save". "Use" was a weak member of the "own" cluster for the second group. Since the data were collected for statistical illustrations, the semantics of the verbs themselves were not of interest to the experimenters and were not discussed or interpreted. But the studies do appear to show that verbs pertaining to possessing and guarding are closely related to the concept of owning. Semantics The rules of ownership and the language of ownership must be closely inter-related. One way to study a concept is to treat it as a problem in semantics. As opposed to the more observational studies of ownership behaviors evident in studies of territoriality and social development, a semantic analysis of ownership would be more amenable to larger

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