Some of the simplest words harbor an amazingly explicit set of wayward traits. Digging them out, classifying them, and showing their relationships is termed componential analysis or feature analysis, and the traits themselves are semantic features, which supposedly do the same for meaning that distinctive features do for phonologySome of the simplest words harbor an amazingly explicit set of wayward traits. Digging them out, classifying them, and showing their relationships is termed componential analysis or feature analysis, and the traits themselves are semantic features, which supposedly do the same for meaning that distinctive features do for phonology