A Linguistic Account of Singular Terms

Polakof, Ana Clara

Resumen:

Vendler (1967b) discusses how we may linguistically recognize a singular term. Even though singular terms are relevant to Philosophy and not necessarily to Linguistics, it may be enriching to know what we can do to disambiguate such a term. Philosophically, singular terms are seen as singular definite descriptions which may be used to refer to a unique entity in the world. Vendler tried to provide a syntactic account of singular terms, and was not taken into account by philosophers. Linguistically speaking, a singular term will be a singular definite determiner phrase which may or may not correlate to something. We will show that a strictly syntactic account, as the one Vendler proposed, is deficient, and that it does not provide necessary and sufficient conditions to recognize a singular term. We will take into account Vendler’s spirit. We will use the advances in linguistics to explain how we may form a singular term, and provide syntactic semantic conditions to recognize a singular term.


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2021
Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación
Términos singulares
Definición
Singularidad
Humanidades
Lengua y Literatura
Lingüística
Filosofía, Ética y Religión
Inglés
Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación
REDI
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12381/591
https://doi.org/10.18012/arf.v8iesp.60029
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description Vendler (1967b) discusses how we may linguistically recognize a singular term. Even though singular terms are relevant to Philosophy and not necessarily to Linguistics, it may be enriching to know what we can do to disambiguate such a term. Philosophically, singular terms are seen as singular definite descriptions which may be used to refer to a unique entity in the world. Vendler tried to provide a syntactic account of singular terms, and was not taken into account by philosophers. Linguistically speaking, a singular term will be a singular definite determiner phrase which may or may not correlate to something. We will show that a strictly syntactic account, as the one Vendler proposed, is deficient, and that it does not provide necessary and sufficient conditions to recognize a singular term. We will take into account Vendler’s spirit. We will use the advances in linguistics to explain how we may form a singular term, and provide syntactic semantic conditions to recognize a singular term.
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spelling Reconocimiento 4.0 Internacional. (CC BY)Acceso abiertoinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess2022-06-15T14:21:54Z2022-06-15T14:21:54Z2021-07https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12381/591FCE_3_2018_1_148810https://doi.org/10.18012/arf.v8iesp.60029Vendler (1967b) discusses how we may linguistically recognize a singular term. Even though singular terms are relevant to Philosophy and not necessarily to Linguistics, it may be enriching to know what we can do to disambiguate such a term. Philosophically, singular terms are seen as singular definite descriptions which may be used to refer to a unique entity in the world. Vendler tried to provide a syntactic account of singular terms, and was not taken into account by philosophers. Linguistically speaking, a singular term will be a singular definite determiner phrase which may or may not correlate to something. We will show that a strictly syntactic account, as the one Vendler proposed, is deficient, and that it does not provide necessary and sufficient conditions to recognize a singular term. We will take into account Vendler’s spirit. 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spellingShingle A Linguistic Account of Singular Terms
Polakof, Ana Clara
Términos singulares
Definición
Singularidad
Humanidades
Lengua y Literatura
Lingüística
Filosofía, Ética y Religión
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title_full A Linguistic Account of Singular Terms
title_fullStr A Linguistic Account of Singular Terms
title_full_unstemmed A Linguistic Account of Singular Terms
title_short A Linguistic Account of Singular Terms
title_sort A Linguistic Account of Singular Terms
topic Términos singulares
Definición
Singularidad
Humanidades
Lengua y Literatura
Lingüística
Filosofía, Ética y Religión
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