TY - BOOK AU - Piotr Stalmaszczyk PY - 2016 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 2363-7242 SN - 9783653054293 TI - Philosophical and Linguistic Analyses of Reference DO - 10.3726/978-3-653-05429-3 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1049305 N2 - Papers in this collection provide philosophical and linguistic analyses of reference. The topics discussed include different types of reference, problems of identity, indexicality, reference fixing and descriptions. Other issues covered in individual chapters concern events and the event-argument hypothesis, predicate reference, definite descriptions, contextualism, types of quantifications, faultless disagreement, vagueness, reference in minimalism, and the reference system for coding spatial information in Hausa. The contributions discuss the approaches proposed by Gottlob Frege, Donald Davidson, and Saul Kripke, and contribute to the debate on reference in contemporary philosophy of language and linguistics. KW - philosophy of language, Gottlob Frege, Donald Davidson LA - English ER -