Sentence examples for Semantic argument from inspiring English sources

Although wo in 58 and ta in 59 both correspond to the NP2 in 60 and can both be understood as a semantic argument of the corresponding main predicate, ta in 59 semantically is an Agent argument of zou 'to walk' and wo in 58 can be interpreted as the Patient argument of qi 'to annoy'.

This is an essentially semantic argument.

The consequences of this semantic argument could be devastating.

It all sounds like a purely semantic argument, and maybe it is.

He liked the idea that he had started a semantic argument.

I argue in the paper that this form of descriptivism is open to the challenge from Kripke's semantic argument.

Semantic arguments become vigorous, charades-like performances that are stretched out for too long.

This multiagent calculus yields syntactic proofs of some type abstraction properties that traditionally require semantic arguments.

Granted, lawyers with the C.I.A. and the Administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama had drawn up semantic arguments carefully delineating the difference between a targeted killing and an assassination.

Rather than wade through long philosophical and semantic arguments (theirs are brief and to the point), Allwood et al. wade through the evidence.

The judge's comments came at the end of an unusually testy 90-minute procedural hearing, in which both sides haggled over, and were frequently confused by, all sorts of legal and semantic arguments.