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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

subsentential en · ADJ

Etymology

From sub- + sentential.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Less than a sentence.
    • This looks like a candidate for a subsentential logical form and there may be various other cases of embedded fragments which have subsentential logical forms (appositional noun phrases, for instance). 2002, Robyn Carston, Thoughts and utterances: the pragmatics of explicit communication, page 152:
    • Quine makes this claim at two levels: the level of whole sentences, and the level of subsentential expressions. At the level of subsentential expressions the claim is known as the thesis of the inscrutability of reference. 2007, Michael Rowland Morris, An introduction to the philosophy of language, page 220: