semantico-
(siːˈmæntɪkəʊ)
also seˈmanto-,
combining form f. Gr. σηµαντικός of semantic a., used with adjs. and advbs. in sense ‘semantic(ally) and..’.
| 1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Languages 277 All linguistic change is a process pertaining to..semanto-phonetic expression. Ibid. 420 Archaic Chinese seems to have had a system of..semanto-phonetically changeable radicals. 1939 Semantico-empirical [see semantic paradox s.v. semantic a. C.]. 1971 Language XLVII. 80 These structures are semanto-syntactic, which means that the semantic properties or bundles of properties are arranged not in a linear order but in a hierarchical one. 1976 Word 1971 XXVII. 268 Semantico-intentionally there are two stages of development. 1977 P. Strevens New Orientations Teaching of English ii. 25 Semantico-grammatical categories—expressing universal concepts of time, quantity, space and matter, as well as expressing grammatical concepts of case (‘who did it, who it happened to, and what got changed’). |