The grammar of 'meaning'

In S. Watanabe (ed.), CARLS Series of Advanced Study of Logic and Sensibility, volume 4. Keio University Press (2011)
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Abstract

This paper analyzes some grammatical aspects of the English verb "to mean" and its nominalizations, and based on that, argues that meaning is something that people do rather than something that words have.

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Lajos L. Brons
University of Groningen (PhD)

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