quasisemantic
adjEtymology From quasi- + semantic.
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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.1986, Noam Chomsky, Knowledge of language: its nature, origin, and use:
- 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: