Grammaire, lexique et typologie

Enunciators have a wide range of solutions available when they wish to express something in their language. Some of the categorisations they wish to produce take the form of bound morphemes (affixes: as in French re-diffus-ion-s) or morphologies that are free-standing to some extent (French: a chanté, aurait pu chanter). This onomasiological approach is essential in the study of language mechanisms and evolutionary processes. The semasiological approach the one that brings the receiver into play tends rather towards studying how to settle issues of interpretative choice, with less impact on typological considerations