Some Remarks on How Words Mean. Technical Report No. 307 [electronic resource] / Georgia M. Green.

Most of the ordinary words in a language do not mean; rather, they act as rigid designators, referring to the same object in all possible words in which the object exists. Most words are names that are used as rigid designators of kinds--natural kinds (species, genre, and so forth), artifacts, physi...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Green, Georgia M.
Corporate Authors:	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1984.
Subjects:	Definitions. Diachronic Linguistics. Etymology. Language Classification. Language Role. Language Universals. Linguistic Theory. Semantics.