Semantic

In such grammars, conflicts among semantic and syntactic constraints are resolved in terms of ranking.

But this is not a semantic question about the meaning of the word accurate.

Another very important way in which a language grows is by semantic modification of existing words.

It will be shown that a semantic fit between the sortal restrictions activated by the preposition and a depicted object results in inhibitory effects.

The semantic valence attributed to a hieroglyphic language is two-edged.

Two appendices provide the technical details of the semantic insight on which our approach is based.

In any case, no longer a niche-word filling a semantic gap, the vogue word became a vague word.

Formal scientific languages can be subjected to more thorough study by the semantic method that he developed.

They’ll use a lot of legalisms and a lot of semantic language so that it won’t be quite so black and white.

All the appeal of the system is in the powerful common sense semantic analysis going on in the background.

For deaf children a stronger connection should exist between orthographic and semantic features.

The argument assumes that interpretation is a purely linguistic or semantic process until an ambiguity is revealed.

Its elegant script is unknown from any other source, and not one clue as to its semantic content has emerged.

At this point, the semantic extensions go in at least two different directions.

In other words, there is no body of evidence against which a semantic theory could be verified.

They are self-conscious efforts to thwart the confinement of written language and its semantic limits.

The language should cover all common semantic and syntactic constructs.

semantic error

I would be far happier encouraging the linguistic and semantic creativity you find in the hip hop community.

Lexical items in pidgin languages tend to cover a wider semantic domain than in the base language.

Finnish partitive constructions exhibit a case alternation that is partly semantically , partly syntactically driven.

Neither could a syntactically and semantically unexceptional expression be assigned to the lexicon – the lexicon is the repository of idiosyncratic facts, not of regular expressions.

The majority of their songs use the word as a series of fragments which at times become semanticallyindecipherable as language.

Either way, guttural and gutter have been phonetically and semantically conflated.

And the third of the three coordinate verb phrases is itself a direct quote, semantically within the scope of the verb say.