<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>All forms of nominal reference, whether quantificational, definite, rigid, deictic, or personal, require that the nominals in question appear in relevant grammatical configurations. Reference is in this sense a grammatical phenomenon. It is never determined lexically or a word-world relation in a purely semantic or causal sense. Here it is further argued that the principles of the grammar of object-reference naturally extend to cases where the reference of one nominal depends on that of another, i.e. the grammar of referential dependence, without any further special grammatical relations such as ‘binding’ required. This further includes a relation of (referential) identity.</p></abstract>

All forms of nominal reference, whether quantificational, definite, rigid, deictic, or personal, require that the nominals in question appear in relevant grammatical configurations. Reference is in this sense a grammatical phenomenon. It is never determined lexically or a word-world relation in a purely semantic or causal sense. Here it is further argued that the principles of the grammar of object-reference naturally extend to cases where the reference of one nominal depends on that of another, i.e. the grammar of referential dependence, without any further special grammatical relations such as ‘binding’ required. This further includes a relation of (referential) identity.

On the Grammar of Referential Dependence

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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All forms of nominal reference, whether quantificational, definite, rigid, deictic, or personal, require that the nominals in question appear in relevant...

On the Grammar of Referential Dependence

Data publikacji: 23 lis 2016

Zakres stron: 11 - 33

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2016-0031

Słowa kluczowe
reference, referential dependence, anaphora, binding theory, identity

© 2016 Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

On the Grammar of Referential Dependence

Data publikacji: 23 lis 2016

Zakres stron: 11 - 33

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2016-0031

Słowa kluczowereference, referential dependence, anaphora, binding theory, identity

© 2016 Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Słowa kluczowe
reference, referential dependence, anaphora, binding theory, identity