Equatives and Deferred Reference

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ID2980965
AuthorsGregory Ward (0000-0002-2030-2298, corresponding author), Gregory L Ward
Year2004
Volume80
Issue2
Pages262-289
Publication date2004-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/lan.2004.0102
OpenAlexW2078308523
LanguageEN
Citations received43
References cited32

Previous accounts of DEFERRED REFERENCE (e.g. Nunberg 1995) have argued that all (nonostensive) deferred reference is the result of MEANING TRANSFER, a shift in the sense of a nominal or predicate expression. An analysis of deferred equatives ( I'm the pad thai ) suggests an alternative account based on the notion of PRAGMATIC MAPPING: a contextually licensed mapping operation between (sets of) discourse entities, neither of which undergoes a transfer of meaning. Moreover, the use of a deferred equative requires the presence of a contextually licensed OPEN PROPOSITION whose instantiation encodes the particular mapping between entities, both of which remain accessible to varying degrees within the discourse model. Finally, it is shown how a complete account of deferred reference must provide for transfers of reference as well as sense

Demonstrative · Determiner · Epistemology · Expression (computer science) · Indexicality · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Metaphor · Metonymy · Noun · Predicate (mathematical logic) · Proper noun · Proposition · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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