distinguished from one another in terms of that word’s syntagmatic relations with other words occurring in the expression, that is, in the lexical chain. On the other hand, different words that have related meanings stand in a paradigmatic relationship with each other such that, in an expression containing one of the words, another word selected from the paradigm may be substituted, thus presenting the possibility of making a lexical choice. Here, then, are the two dimensions of linguistic analysis
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