One of two systems within Leonard Talmy's Conceptual Structuring System Approach. The conceptual structuring system provides the structure, skeleton or 'scaffolding' for a given scene, across which the rich substantive detail provided by the conceptual content system can be 'draped'. It follows from this that the meaning associated with the conceptual structuring system is schematic meaning, as encoded by closed class forms. The conceptual structuring system is organised into a number of distinct schematic systems, each of which are further divided into schematic categories. The four schematic systems are: configurational system, attentional system, perspectival system and force-dynamics system.