- the use of
pragmatic competency.
Michael Silverstein has
argued that "
nonreferential" or "pure"
indices do not
contribute to an utterance's
referential meaning...
-
variation among scholarly traditions.
Linguistic signs may also
derive nonreferential meaning from indexicality, for
example when
features of a speaker's...
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substitute for
generic he or she,
particularly when the
antecedent is
nonreferential" (e.g. anybody, a nurse, or a
truck driver)
rather than
referring to...
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factual reference work, a
novel stands in
opposition to it as a "literary
nonreferential narrative". One
critical review questions why a
novelist would paradoxically...
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modern Swedish due to
complex verbal morphology. Both
referential and
nonreferential subjects could be left out as
verbal structures already conve**** the...
- seer, no
beginning and no end, just peace.... It is
nonconceptual and
nonreferential ... it is inexpressible, unobservable, unchanging, and unconditioned...
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languages such as
English must have an
overt subject even if it is
nonreferential (dummy subject).
Parameter theory, thus,
provides an
explanation for...
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Although Language poetry can be seen as
advocating a
poetics of
nonreferentiality, Armantrout's work,
focusing as it
often does on the
local and the...
- (1) the
modifiers follow their heads, and (2) the "possessors" are
nonreferential except in a
generic sense, that is, they "never
refer to a particular...
- ISBNÂ 978-3-642-74861-5. Folven, R. J.; Bonvillian, J. D. (1991). "The
transition from
nonreferential to
referential language in
children acquiring American Sign Language"...
