<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Hello. The Cobuilders are curiously silent. Old-style lexicographers may have behaved in this way, but modern lexicographers would leave the number of senses to the software to determine, largely through collocation.</DIV>
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<DIV>The line you quote offers only one match via the limited search techniques offered to the general public. It is as follows:</DIV>
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<DIV>testable concept, and has almost as many meanings as it has advocates.</DIV>
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<DIV>Corpus BoE: Strathy</DIV>
<DIV>Canadian journal: 1987</DIV>
<DIV>document 24</DIV>
<DIV>Match number 1</DIV>
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<DIV>A wildcard or skip search would reveal the subtext. This is only available via a Cobuild log-in. I can only guess that the variables of such a search would reveal more of a sense of causality. Cobuilders are having their logins revoked at this time, I am reliably informed. Mine was removed on December 31 2003, a fortnight after I falsified The Truth and Reconciliation Commission using the Bank of English.</DIV>
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<DIV>Jeremy Pope of Transparency International wrote:'A country will be as corrupt as its institutions will allow.'</DIV>
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<DIV>Bill Louw</DIV>
<DIV>University of Zimbabwe<BR>--- On <B>Tue, 9/7/10, Laura Lofberg <I><Laura.Lofberg@uta.fi></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Laura Lofberg <Laura.Lofberg@uta.fi><BR>Subject: [Corpora-List] Quotation (lexicography)<BR>To: corpora@uib.no<BR>Date: Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 8:01 AM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>Could someone with a better memory help me?<BR><BR>If I remember correctly, someone has said 'a word has as many meanings as a lexicographer cares to perceive' or something like that. Does anyone remember the exact wording? And who has made this brilliant comment, where and when?<BR><BR>Best,<BR><BR>Laura Löfberg<BR>University of Tampere<BR>Finland<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Corpora mailing list<BR><A href="http://us.mc653.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Corpora@uib.no" ymailto="mailto:Corpora@uib.no">Corpora@uib.no</A><BR><A href="http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora" target=_blank>http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora</A><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table><br>