quasisemantic

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adjective

Semantic in some limited manner or to some limited degree; apparently, but not actually, semantic.

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Meanings

adjectivequasisemantic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableSemantic in some limited manner or to some limited degree; apparently, but not actually, semantic.

    Consider, for example, the principles of pronominal reference, which have been central to these quasisemantic investigations.

    1986, Noam Chomsky, Knowledge of language: its nature, origin, and use
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    Travis (1991) also gives some quasisemantic arguments for this structure, claiming that tense operators have scope over the subject...

    1996, Mark C Baker, The polysynthesis parameter

Origin

From quasi- + semantic.

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Chicago

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