Uddrag fra Propositions, [Nice1951] 046-0060

(2) ©mantles and Morphology. Morphological categories are not, as such, a fit object for seman- tic analysis. To set up a semantic scheme for th© propositions or the tenses of a language, taken in isolation, is much like setting up a phonemic system for these categories, apart from the general phonemic system of the language concerned. The logical absurdity la in both cases the same. This is not to say hat morphology is irrelevant to semantics, orphe- mic flentify is a valuable clue to the discovery of sublogical Identities beneath superficially different meanings, ut is never a proof that there is, or ever was, such an identity.