The traditional approach to words as virtual components of sense leads to some unsolvable problems on account of the non-isomorphic relation between the formal and semantic dimensions. In order to overcome those problems the authors of the article make a distinction between the lexical and the communicative meaning. They assume that elementary units of communicative sense have their formal equivalents, i.e. predicate-argument configurations which can be elaborated and actualized in the process of communication.
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