②In componential analysis ,the feature specification is faced with three problems. (P153)First, it is often difficult to determine the status of semantic primitives, i.e. what semantic features are essential to define a word and how many are sufficient for the specification.The second problem is concerned with the choice of semantic primitives for specification.The third problem with this analysis is that there is a class of words that do not seem to have any semantic features, such as the, of, and, ah.