semanticist

He introduces readers to the work of Alexander Bryan Johnson, a little known 19th-century philosopher and semanticist. Cox describes Johnson as a banker who realized that the paper notes he handled daily had no intrinsic value, but the worth of those notes depended on our human willingness to attribute real value to them.

In agreement with his criticism of the semanticist account of the linguistic content, Recanati holds that "there is a central role for rich pragmatic processes to play in determining the correct analysis of the literal meaning of an utterance of a given sentence [...] in addition to there being a role for such processes in determining the contextual implicatures of the utterance." In other words, according to Recanati we should focus on pragmatic factors rather than in semantic elements to determine the linguistic content of the sentences that speakers utter.

Phil from Forensics is our resident semanticist. He found the key man in all of this.

However, leaving the worries of WSD tasks for a moment, the problem described above is of special interest to the semanticist, for it suggests that mechanisms of sense extension are realized lexically (collocationally) at the surface level of discourse--in other words, shared collocates among different senses of a word can be regarded as traces of the common origin of such senses.

As a result, for instance, he fails to appreciate the presence of the Nisei semanticist S.I.

I think a semanticist would be better qualified than I am to interpret Davis's allusions to "the brain-mind process" or his assertion that Shakespeare's language "is quintessentially more like the work of a verb than a noun" (just when I had reached the conclusion it was more in the nature of a diphthong).

Katz is not a generative semanticist (3)--why one might study it, and what some basic terminology and distinctions look like, e.g.

In light of the semanticist bent mentioned earlier, it is not surprising that Smith asserts that his originality as a teacher lies not in what he says, but how he says it.

When I was a college student, I read an essay by the noted semanticist S.

As semanticist Alfred Korzybski said, the map is not the territory.

Parts of the study have fringe benefits for the student of Czech aspect and intonation (an index might have helped them), and for the logical semanticist. The references quoted are mostly items in Czech, Polish, and Russian.