a semantic domain consists essentially of a group of meaning which share certain semantic components. Though some domains, entities, antimate objects, masses, artifacts, events, processes, states
May appear to be logical categories, based on systematic classifications of extralinguistic phenomena, they are in reality not dependent upon any a priori system of nomenclature or taxonomy.
For any language, semantic domains cosist simply of meaning which have common semantic components. How relevant such a domain is, how large it is, and at what level in the hierarchical structure it may function depend solely upon the total semantic structure os the language?