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Men, women, and children The semantics of basic social categories 2.1 The canonical example of lexical semantics? The great Danish linguist Louis Hjelmslev produced the classic structuralist semantic analysis of men, women, boys, and girls as part of his Prolegomena to a Theory of Language (1961[1943]: 69–75). Hjelmslev’s program was to progressively reduce complex semantic entities to combinations of a smaller number of simpler semantic elements.