Reference and Meaning

Reference and Meaning

1. Referential and attributive uses

   • Indefinite noun phrases
     • Physically Entity
     • Unknown entities
       • Any referent
         • Attribute use
       • Specific Referent
         • Referential use
     • Unreal entities

2. Names and Referents

   • Intention-to-identify, recognition-of-intention
     • Communities
     • Common language
     • Culture
     • Speaker
     • Listener
   • Pragmatic connection
     • Person
       • Via expression
     • objects
       • Via the name

3. The role of co-text

   • Possible interpretations
     • Linguistic part of context
       • Social act
   • Reffering Expression
     • Range of reference

4. Anaphoric reference

   • Initial reference
     • indefinite
   • definite noun phrases, and pronouns
     • Subsequent reference
       • Subsuquent Expression
         • Anaphor
       • Initial expression
         • antecedent
   • pronoun goes first
     • Cataphora
   • Idenrificaction of an etity
     • Elipsis