Example sentences for: semantics

How can you use “semantics” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The first two parts of this work, the third part of which is a dictionary of 5380 German loanwords in English, begins with a useful Introduction that provides the book with just the right setting, then goes on in Part I with An historical overview by semantic fields and, in Part II, with a Linguistic overview, which treats matters like Phonology and Graphemics, Grammar, Word-Formation Processes, Semantics, Naturalization, and Dialect.

  • The answer is that they are not English words but English-inspired words, inspired by expressions heard on television and by half-understood words picked up in English class, then bandied about with tilted semantics.

  • It may be argued that such personal semantics are more than mischievous.

  • As Carl Mills writes, linguistic competence includes knowledge of phonology and syntax but not semantics, a view of Leonard Bioomfield's that created many difficulties:

  • Solution or Semantics?


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