On the Grammar of Referential Dependence

• Authors: Wolfram Hinzen
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

reference; referential dependence; anaphora; binding theory; identity

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 11-33

Dates

published

2016-09-01

online

2016-11-23

Contributors

author

Wolfram Hinzen

• ICREA & Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/slgr-2016-0031