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- From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)
- Subject: Re: Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.211810.17815@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Summary: Definitive answer
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- Organization: AI Programs, University of Georgia, Athens
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:18:10 GMT
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- More concisely: Syntagmatic relationships hold between things that are
- used in combination with each other. Paradigmatic relationships hold
- between things that are used as alternatives to one another.
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- The terms were introduced by Ferdinand de Saussure in his _Cours de
- Linguistique Generale_, published posthumously in (I think) 1911.
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