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  2. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously - Wikipedia

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    British linguist Angus McIntosh was unable to accept that Chomsky's utterance was entirely meaningless because to him, "colorless green ideas may well sleep furiously". As if to prove that the sentences are in fact meaningful, McIntosh wrote two poems influenced by Chomsky's utterance, one of which was entitled Nightmare I .

  3. John Lyons (linguist) - Wikipedia

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    Lyons' introductory texts are Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics, Chomsky, Semantics, and Linguistic Semantics. He was the creator of a constructed language called Bongo-Bongo, which he created as a teaching tool for his linguistics students. [2] Upon retirement in 2000 he moved to France. He died on 12 March 2020. [3]

  4. List of works with different titles in the United Kingdom and ...

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    A Canadian game. UK censors found Bully unacceptable, although the re-released title of Bully: Scholarship Edition was not changed. The UK title is Latin for "Dog eat dog", which is the motto of Bullworth Academy, the school featured in the game. Video game Castlevania: The New Generation: Castlevania: Bloodlines: Video game Soleil: Crusader of ...

  5. John Rupert Firth - Wikipedia

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    John Rupert Firth OBE (17 June 1890 in Keighley, Yorkshire – 14 December 1960 in Lindfield, West Sussex), commonly known as J. R. Firth, was an English linguist and a leading figure in British linguistics during the 1950s. [1]

  6. Category:Semantics - Wikipedia

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    C. Capitonym; Cataphora; Categorial grammar; Semantic change; Chinese word for crisis; Classic monolingual word-sense disambiguation; Coercion (linguistics)

  7. David Crystal - Wikipedia

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    David Crystal, OBE, FBA, FLSW, FCIL (born 6 July 1941) is a British linguist who works on the linguistics of the English language.. Crystal studied English at University College London and has lectured at Bangor University and the University of Reading.

  8. Semantics (Saeed book) - Wikipedia

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    Semantics is a textbook on semantics by John Saeed. The book was first published in 1997 with the second edition published in 2003, third edition in 2009, fourth edition in 2015 and fifth edition in 2023.

  9. Starter pack - Wikipedia

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    Booster pack, a package of cards or figurines, also called a starter pack Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Starter pack .