And:
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>I would question the notion that they're "relations between elements of
>meaning rather than words". If we're thinking of words as phonological
>patterns or phonetic events, then I would agree with it, but would
>say that the same is true of the whole of syntax. But if we're thinking of
>words as the elements that get interpreted by pragmatics, then all
>semantic relations that figure in the grammar would hold between words;
>indeed, there wouldn't be a distinction between words and grammatically-
>represented elements of meaning.
## I don't understand this. So if Sinking means 'x moving whose result is
that x is lower', then 'lower' is a word?
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