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quasisemantic

adj

Etymology

From quasi- + semantic.

  1. borrowed from σημαντικός
  2. prefixed as quasisemantic — “quasi + semantic”

Definitions

  1. Semantic in some limited manner or to some limited degree

    Semantic 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.
    • Travis (1991) also gives some quasisemantic arguments for this structure, claiming that tense operators have scope over the subject...

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for quasisemantic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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