Sentence examples for a forerunner of semantics from inspiring English sources

As Makinson 1993 notes, it was also a forerunner of semantics for defeasible conditionals generally (cf. "if p, normally q").

This feature of historical-philological semantics makes it a forerunner of the stress on context-sensitivity encouraged by many subsequent approaches to word meaning in philosophy (Section 3) and linguistics (Section 4).

It was a forerunner of much of his political verse.

NKVD, Soviet secret police agency, a forerunner of the KGB.

Later she founded the League of Free Nations, a forerunner of the Foreign Policy Association.

Pyramids was a forerunner of the game snooker.

Pool was a forerunner of the game snooker.

"That was a forerunner of what became the violent universe.

Epping became a forerunner of the national parks idea.

A number of lessons from America's best charter schools (a forerunner of academies) might help.

IMVU began as a bootstrap operation, a forerunner of the lean start-up model.