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Author(s) -

Thorstein Fretheim

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

quaderns de filologia - estudis lingüístics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2444-1449

pISSN - 1135-416X

DOI - 10.7203/qf.23.13528

Subject(s) - complement (music) , noun phrase , linguistics , term (time) , head (geology) , phrase , computer science , expression (computer science) , proper noun , function (biology) , comprehension , natural language processing , noun , philosophy , programming language , chemistry , physics , biochemistry , quantum mechanics , geomorphology , evolutionary biology , complementation , biology , gene , phenotype , geology

This paper adopts a radical contextualist approach to the reference of definite descriptions that contain the English expression the same, either without a complement or with a complement in the form of a head noun and/or a comparison phrase of the type as X. It is argued that definite descriptions which contain the same do not refer to a unique entity, despite the fact that the result of a comprehension test carried out seems to give some support to the belief that such descriptions may serve the function of a directly referring term.

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