Semantic study of Semantic Units in Colloquial Sinhala
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2008
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Journal of the Faculty of Humanities
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This article includes an analysis of semantic units in Colloquial Sinhala and difficulties faced in classifying them Theories in traduced in Pragmatics are used in the analysis. First 'meaning' is described through definitions given in Traditional Semantics, Generative Grammar and Pragmatics. Then the semantic units in Colloquial Sinhala are analyzed.
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Semantics, Sri Lanka, Semantics (Philosophy) in literature, Colloquial language, Sinhala language, Colloquial