Paradigmatic classification of nouns

The paradigmatic classification of nouns, i.e. their classification in terms of similarities and differences in their properties, is traditionally controversial.

There are essentially two main views:

1. Words have intrinsic meanings, independently of the contexts in which they occur. These meanings are expressed in terms of semantic components, markers, features, ...
2. Words have meanings which arise out of their occurrence in contexts, which may be either collocational in phrases or sentences, textual in larger verbal contexts, or situational in dialogue contexts. These meanings are expressed in terms of semantic and pragmatic relations between words and their verbal and situational contexts.

Task:

Find an appropriate text and describe how the meanings of words are expressed in terms of components or depend on their occurrence in context.

Think about cases such as the following:

1. "My great-aunt's niece is my brother's father's wife." True or false? Why?
2. Build a taxonomy of terms such as you would find in a thesaurus, and express the hierarchical relations in the taxonomy in terms of components such as you would find in a "definitio per genus proximum et differentia specifica".