Are Complex Demonstratives Synonymous with Definite Descriptions?

In this article, I discuss the way in which descriptive material in complex demonstratives contributes to their literal content relative to the context of the utterance. A traditional hypothesis about complex demonstratives in the philosophy of language postulates that the descriptive material ‘F’ i...

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Main Author: Felipe Amaral
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais 2014-05-01
Series:Revista de Estudos da Linguagem
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Online Access:http://periodicos.letras.ufmg.br/index.php/relin/article/view/5753