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Unembedded definite descriptions and relevance
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 1998 Definite descriptions (e.g. 'The king of France in 1997', 'The teacher of Aristotle') do not stand for particulars. Or so I will assume. The semantic alternative has seemed to be that descriptions only have meaning within sentences: i.e., that their ...
Stainton, Robert
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Kaplan and Marti on definite descriptions [PDF]
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2023 Donnellan’s distinction between referential and attributive uses of definite descriptions gave rise to controversy between semantic and pragmatic accounts of referentially used descriptions.
E. V. Borisov
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On Free Description Logics with Definite Descriptions [PDF]
Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, 2021 Definite descriptions are phrases of the form ‘the x such that φ’, used to refer to single entities in a context. They are often more meaningful to users than individual names alone, in particular when modelling or querying data over ontologies. We investigate free description logics with both individual names and definite descriptions as terms of the ...
Alessandro Artale +3 more
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Children's Acquisition of Homogeneity in Plural Definite Descriptions
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Plural definite descriptions give rise to homogeneity effects: the positive The trucks are blue and the negative The trucks aren't blue are both neither true nor false when some of the trucks are blue and some are not, that is, when the group of trucks ...
Manuel Kriz +2 more
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Definite Descriptions, Presuppositions and Reference [PDF]
Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2017 In this article I review some fundamental aspects of the singularist view of definite descriptions taking as paradigm the Frege-Strawson version of it.
Marco Ruffino
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(De)accenting definite descriptions [PDF]
ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 2001 This paper focuses on definite descriptions. It will be shown that a definite description refers to a given discourse referent if the descriptive content is completely deaccented. But if there is a focussed element within the descriptive content it introduces a novel referent.
Umbach, Carla
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A Paradox for the Existence Predicate
Bulletin of the Section of Logic, 2022 In this paper, a paradox is shown to arise in the context of classical logic from prima facie highly plausible assumptions for the existence predicate as applied to definite descriptions.
Uwe Meixner
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Definite Descriptions and Semantic Memory* [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 1977 Subjects were exposed to sentences containing “direct” and “indirect” uses of names and definite descriptions. On a subsequent recognition test incorrect rejections tended to be of sentences involving indirect uses, and false alarms to sentences involving direct uses.
Andrew Ortony, Richard C. Anderson 0001
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Corela, 2021 This paper is devoted to a singular use of definite descriptions in the online tabloids. Many definite descriptions, such as Jill Biden's husband to designate Joe Biden and Melania's husband to designate Donald Trump, appear unrelated to the subject ...
Mathilde Salles
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The interpretative options of anaphoric complex demonstratives
Glossa, 2022 In this paper, we present experimental evidence from a ‘yes’/‘no’ judgement task and two acceptability rating studies (Experiments 1a-c) for the claim made in Hinterwimmer (2019) that sentences with two anaphorically interpreted complex demonstratives ...
Stefan Hinterwimmer, Umesh Patil
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