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Semantic overloading: a restudy of the verb remind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Dwight Bolinger
Dwight Bolinger*
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Harvard University
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Abstract

A line must be drawn between meanings which are the reference of a word and other meanings which are inferred from its use in particular contexts, even though the inferential meanings may in time become referential. The verb remind is referentially akin to make think, only inferentially akin to resemble. Shared restrictions can be used to prove either case, but the proofs for inference (between remind and resemble) are weightier.

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Language , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , September 1971, pp. 522 - 547
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Copyright © 1971 by Linguistic Society of America

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This article was written while the author was in residence at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, Calif.

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