Referential-Semantic Analysis: Aspects of a Theory of Linguistic Reference

by Torben Thrane

Book Overview

Dr Thrane makes an original contribution to one of the central topics in syntax and semantics: the nature and mechanisms of reference in natural language. He makes a fundamental distinction between syntactic analyses that are internal to the structure of a language and analyses of the referential properties that connect a language with the 'outside world' - and therefore derive in some sense from common human capacities for perceptual discrimination...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521105714
• ISBN13: 9780521105712
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"