{"id":3817,"date":"2019-04-27T04:16:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T04:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/27\/meaning-and-word-order\/"},"modified":"2019-04-27T04:16:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T04:16:53","slug":"meaning-and-word-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/27\/meaning-and-word-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Meaning and Word Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Here is a linguistic bagatelle for your delectation. The striking difference in meaning between &#39;to see through something&#39; and &#39;to see something through&#39; is entirely due to word order. Thus the semantic and syntactic are linked. But they couldn&#39;t be linked if they weren&#39;t distinct.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a linguistic bagatelle for your delectation. The striking difference in meaning between &#39;to see through something&#39; and &#39;to see something through&#39; is entirely due to word order. Thus the semantic and syntactic are linked. But they couldn&#39;t be linked if they weren&#39;t distinct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}