单词 | synsemantic |
释义 | synsemanticadj. Philology. Of a word or phrase: having no meaning outside a context; meaningless in isolation; syncategorematic; opposed to autosemantic. See also note s.v. autosemantic adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > context > [adjective] > having no meaning outside context synsemantic1929 1929 Year's Wk. Eng. Stud. 1927 47 Funke..classifies the units of speech under two heads, termed Autosemantic and Synsemantic, the former constituting the semasiological units of speech, i.e. those which give complete expression of psychic phenomena which are communicable in themselves... Autosemantics correspond to the three basic types of sentence and are not necessarily themselves single words. 1954 Archivum Linguisticum 6 18 These ‘synsemantic’ words ‘adsignify’ or contribute only to the sense of the whole group to which they belong. 1960 Analysis 21 i. 3 According to Brentano ‘Paris’ is not a genuine constituent of ‘I am thinking-of-Paris’. It is in this context, as he sometimes says, a synsemantic expression. As such, it does not refer to anything. 1965 B. Collinder in J. B. Bessinger & R. P. Creed Medieval & Linguistic Stud. 28 The definite article is a synsemantic demonstrative pronoun. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.1929 |
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