semanticistn.
/sᵻˈmantᵻsɪst/, U.S. /səˈmæn(t)əsəst/ An expert in or student of semantics. Now also: an adherent of semanticism (semanticism n.); cf. syntacticist n.
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the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > [noun] > one who studies
semasiologist1897
semanticist1901
semantician1918
notionalist1992
1901 H. Oertel Lect. Study Lang. v. 326 A process which..the French semanticists call rayonnement.
1917 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 16 472 The professional semanticist is visualized in his work-shop,..feverishly fingering the leaves of a host of lexical tomes.
1936 Mind 45 272 Chwistek, a semanticist and metamathematician noted for his work on the theory of types.
1973 J. M. Anderson Struct. Aspects Lang. Change 186 Many of the outstanding semanticists have been optimistic about finding some kind of regularity behind semantic processes.
2000 D. R. Olson in P. K. Smith & A. D. Pellegrini Psychol. Educ. III. lxi. 19 The controversy between the syntacticists and the semanticists is reducible to the alternative assumptions that language is appropriately represented in terms of sentence meanings or in terms of speaker's meanings.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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