Attributive And Referential Uses Of Basic Syntactic Constituents 1

Donnellan's distinction between attributive and referential uses of definite descriptions is extended to include Lewis' basic categories. The distinction as applied to sentences is brought out by investigating the consequences of the failure of presupposed sentences. Stalnaker uses Donnell...

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Main Author: Godden, Kurt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics 1979-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/657