quasisemantic

quasisemantic

English

Etymology

quasi- +‎ semantic

Adjective

quasisemantic (not comparable)

1. Semantic in some limited manner or to some limited degree; apparently, but not actually, semantic.
   • 1986, Noam Chomsky, Knowledge of language: its nature, origin, and use

     Consider, for example, the principles of pronominal reference, which have been central to these quasisemantic investigations.

   • 1996, Mark C Baker, The polysynthesis parameter

     Travis (1991) also gives some quasisemantic arguments for this structure, claiming that tense operators have scope over the subject...