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autosemantic

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Adj.1.autosemantic - of a word or phrase meaningful in isolation, independent of context
linguistics - the scientific study of language
categorematic - of a term or phrase capable of standing as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition
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He considers the traditional distinction between content or autosemantic words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs) and function or synsemantic words (prepositions, conjunctions, etc.
Claudio Di Meola: Die Grammatikalisierung deutscher Prapositionen by Ross-Hagebaum, Sebastian / Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
41-54); Zohar Seker, "One Aspect of the Relationship between Standard and Poetic Language: The Status of the Poetic Verbal Sign as an Autosemantic Unit" (pp.
Hebrew Linguistics/Balshanut 'Ivrit by Hebrew Studies Journal
 
 
 
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