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- noun linguistics The part of
metalanguage that deals withsemantics .
Etymologies
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meta- + semantics
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Besides having suitable genes, he had been through the Intelligence Corps 'unmercifully rigorous courses in linguistics and metalinguistics, semantics and metasemantics, every known trick of concentration and memorization; he had learned how to learn.
The Rebel Worlds Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1972
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