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The meaning of “pain” is in (4) the most prevalent component, whereas “love” can be assumed, as one who was in love with the girl. Moreover, “nostalgia” can also be assigned, as the boy had already met the girl. (5) Dorul de călătorie se deşteptase în mine. “The dor for travelling woke up in me” (Vasile Alecsandri: Vasile Porojan) The “wish” component is the most prevalent one, but “nostalgia” can also be spotted, as one may assume that the writer had already travelled. (6) De pe plaiu-nstrăinării Unde zac şi simt că mor De amarul desperării Şi de-al Ńării mele dor. “From abroad Where I lie and feel like dying Of the bitterness of desperation And of the dor for my country” (Vasile Alecsandri – Dridri) Obviously, “nostalgia” together with “pain” are the prevalent components of dor, but “love” (for one’s country”) cannot be excluded. This means that whenever the “pain” component is identified, at least one of the other two is also present. The conclusion is that the three components are in a hierarchical structure, where “pain” may be added to one of the other two components, or to both of them. Moreover, a third level, assigning indefiniteness, ends up the meaning hierarchy. This hierarchical structure is represented in Figure 1. 102

Figure 1: The hierarchical semantic structure of dor: Level 4 dor Level 3 indefiniteness Level 2: durere (“pain”) Level 1: nostalgie OR dorinŃă OR dragoste (“nostalgia”) (“wish”) (“love”) The first two levels are semantic in content, whereas the third one is semantic only by referring to the border between the four components that made up dor. The presence of the connective OR at level 1 expresses the possibility for two of the words or for all of them to occur simultaneously. Using brackets, the hierarchy is from left (the lowest level) to right, will be represented as follows: [(nostalgia) OR (wish) OR (love)] AND [pain] AND [indefiniteness] → dor How will this hierarchical composition reflect upon the NSM definition of dor? First, from a strictly compositional standpoint, dor appears as a complex notion, as the four notions of “nostalgia”, “wish”, “love” and “pain” are not semantic primes. Then, indefiniteness has to be defined in NSM terms. Finally, from a 103

Figure 1: The hierarchical semantic structure of dor:<br />

Level 4<br />

dor<br />

Level 3<br />

indefiniteness<br />

Level 2:<br />

durere (“pain”)<br />

Level 1:<br />

nostalgie OR dorinŃă OR dragoste<br />

(“nostalgia”) (“wish”) (“love”)<br />

The first two levels are semantic in content, whereas the third one is semantic<br />

only by referring to the border between the four components that made up dor.<br />

The presence of the connective OR at level 1 expresses the possibility for two of<br />

the words or for all of them to occur simultaneously. Using brackets, the<br />

hierarchy is from left (the lowest level) to right, will be represented as follows:<br />

[(nostalgia) OR (wish) OR (love)] AND [pain] AND [indefiniteness] → dor<br />

How will this hierarchical composition reflect upon the NSM definition of dor?<br />

First, from a strictly compositional standpoint, dor appears as a complex notion,<br />

as the four notions of “nostalgia”, “wish”, “love” and “pain” are not semantic<br />

primes. Then, indefiniteness has to be defined in NSM terms. Finally, from a<br />

103

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