Author(s)

Rui Yang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Civil Aviation Flight University of China, Guanghan, Sichuan, China

Corresponding Author

Rui Yang

ABSTRACT

Reference is an important work by Barbara Abbott, an American semantic scientist, which comprehensively and systematically introduces the basic problems of the category of reference. It not only provides a blueprint for the study of the category of reference, but also probes into the remaining controversial issues, such as the reference of proper nouns, definite phrases and quantitative phrases. For beginners of formal semantics, it is a rich and easy-to-understand introductory textbook, for scholars engaged in research related to reference phenomena, it can help expand their ideas.

KEYWORDS

Reference, semantics, pragmatics, nouns, logic

CITE THIS PAPER

Rui Yang, A Review of Reference. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2023) Vol. 6: 1-5. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.060901.

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