Names are not (always) predicates

IF 1.8 3区 心理学 Q1 LINGUISTICS
Mind & Language Pub Date : 2023-10-17 DOI:10.1111/mila.12484
Laura Delgado
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Abstract

A main selling point of predicativism is that, in addition to accounting for predicative uses of proper names, it can successfully account for their referential uses while treating them as predicates, thus providing a uniform semantics for proper names. The strategy is to postulate an unpronounced determiner that is realised with names when they appear to function as singular terms, making them effectively a concealed determiner phrase. I argue against the thesis that names are really predicates in referential uses. I discuss four different environments where names do not behave like the determiner phrases that are thought to embed them.
名称不(总是)是谓词
谓词主义的一个主要卖点是,除了考虑专名的谓词用途外,它还可以成功地考虑它们的引用用途,同时将它们视为谓词,从而为专名提供统一的语义。该策略是假设一个不发音的限定词,当名字作为单数术语出现时,就会实现这个限定词,使它们有效地成为一个隐藏的限定词短语。我反对这样一种观点,即名称在指称用途中实际上是谓词。我将讨论四种不同的环境,在这些环境中,名称的行为不像嵌入它们的限定词短语那样。
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