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Compositional semantics is a field of study which has often concentrated on idioms characterized by a high degree of figuration - see Nunberg et al (1994) [merely implies that someone of female gender is not excluded as a referent. is a stand-alone term in legal material, as in Ex 21-24, it is unlikely that non-exclusion of someone of female gender is communicates, at least potentially, in terms of gender.
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