lunes, 24 de abril de 2017

Reference

In semantics, reference is generally construed as the relationships between nouns or pronouns and objects that are named by them. Hence, the word "John" refers to the person John. The word "it" refers to some previously specified object. 

The object referred to is called the referent of the word. Sometimes the word-object relation is called "denotation"; the word denotes the object. 

The converse relation, the relation from object to word, is called "exemplification"; the object exemplifies what the word denotes. In syntactic analysis, if a word refers to a previous word, the previous word is called the "antecedent".



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