Comparative Concept: reference, referent (inf)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
reference, referent (inf)
| Typ | information packaging |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | reference, referent • reference • referent • topic |
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what the speaker is talking about. Example: in Masha is nice, the speaker is referring to a person named Masha, and Masha is the referent. In the file metaphor for describing propositional acts, reference opens or accesses a discourse file for the referent. (Sections 1.3, 2.1)