noun
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lexical
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It may be wondered why it is necessary, or even advantageous, to have two sorts of unit for lexical semantics .
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However, they can be disentangled sufficiently to allow our study of lexical semantics to proceed.
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At this level of specificity, therefore, these facts are of limited significance for a general study of lexical semantics .
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Money managers are in a better position to understand the semantics of the business.
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As regards metaphor, the cognitive approach appears to share something of both semantics and pragmatics.
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Does this mean that the semantics of natural language can not deal with truth and falsity?
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Lexical semantics refers to the meaning of individual words.
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Perhaps the debate is over semantics .
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The algebraic laws thus yield an algebraic semantics for occam that is isomorphic to our chosen denotational semantics.
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These problems alone would not make the prospects for the straight forward treatment of deictic sentences within truth-conditional semantics look very hopeful.
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We have said that knowing the semantics of a language involves knowing its meaning.