Reference to Non-existent in Semantics

Subject Areas : Philosophy

.Mohammad. Reza.  Ahmadkhani ¹ (ندارد)

Received: 2014-11-10 Accepted : 2014-11-10 Published : 2005-06-22

Keywords: non-existent, referential expression, reference,

Abstract :

One of the subjects which is studied by scholars and philosophers in theWest and East, is determination of the truth conditions of sentencescontaing non-existent expressions and status of understanding thesemantic content of these sentences. We can not find a philosopher whohas not dealt with this subject. But as far as the author knows, there isno semantic study in linguistics, at least in Persian, about non-existentexpressions. The aim of this article is providing a new theory aboutstatus of reference and classification of non- existent expressions fromlinguistic semantic view.