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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: "Barry H." <nebarry AT verizon.net>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Lexemes and meanings
  • Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 21:55:05 -0400

It appears to me that it all hinges on what "mean" means. This equivocation is fodder for all the here engendered sprawling, tortuous and arcane disputations on "function", "differences of form", "contexts", "semantic fields", "unity of action", "methodologies", ect.. 
  
Isaac Fried, Boston University

On May 6, 2013, at 9:15 PM, Barry H. wrote:

My favorite teaching example for demonstrating semantic range:


"The captain can run the ship with a run in her stocking while her crew 

members run a race on the run on deck 10."


Now, what does "run" mean?





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