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Russellianism and Referential Uses of Descriptions
Philosophical Studies, 2003A number of philosophers continue to argue, inthe spirit of Keith Donnellan’s classic paper“Reference and Definite Descriptions,” thatthere is more to the semantics of definitedescriptions than Russell’s theory predicts. If their arguments are correct, then a completesemantic theory for sentences that containdefinite descriptions will have to provide ...
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Referential and non-referential uses of nominalization constructions in Malay
2011This paper examines three versatile morphemes – yang, -nya and punya – that contribute to the formation of nominalization constructions in Malay. In particular, we examine how these morphemes give rise to both referential and non-referential uses of nominalization constructions.
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Quantifiers and Referential Use
2015Referential uses of quantified determiner phrases other than descriptions have not been extensively considered. In this paper they are considered in some detail, and related to referential uses of descriptions. The first aim is to develop the observation that, contrary to the currently received view that it is only for descriptions that referential ...
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On Scales, Salience and Referential Language Use
2012Kennedy (2007) explains differences in the contextual variability of gradable adjectives in terms of salience of minimal or maximal degree values on the scales that these terms are associated with in formal semantics. In contrast, this paper suggests that the attested contextual variability is a consequence of a more general tendency to use gradable ...
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Conversational Implicature And The Referential Use of Descriptions
Philosophical Studies, 2005This paper enters the continuing fray over the semantic significance of Donnellan’s referential/attributive distinction. Some holdthat the distinction is at bottom a pragmatic one: i.e., that the difference between the referential use and the attributive use arises at the level of speaker’s meaning rather the level of sentence-or utterance-meaning ...
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Interaction Involvement and the use of Referential and Formal Anaphora in Conversation
Language and Speech, 1988This study examined whether there are different cognitive burdens associated with the use of referential and formal anaphora in conversation, and whether these differences are systematically exploited by speakers seeking to converse coherently. It was assumed that speakers encountering difficulty in managing the pragmatics of conversation should rely ...
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The Use of referential questions in the EFL classroom
2020ÖZET Bu çalışmada yabancı dil olarak İngilizce öğreten öğretmenlerin derslerinde cevabı öğretmen tarafından bilinen ve bilinmeyen (display and referential) soru türlerini nasıl kullandıkları, ve bu soruların öğrencilerin verdiği cevapların uzunluğu ve sözdizimsel olarak karmaşıklığı üzerindeki etkisi incelenmektedir.
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Overview of Computer Measures of the Referential Process
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021Bernard Maskit
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Using circles games to investigate the referential use of negation
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2022Francesca Capuano +2 more
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