Publications

Publication details [#2274]

Cole, Peter. 1976. Attributiveness and referential opacity. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 2 : 117–123.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

opacity vs. transparency | propositional attitude | referentiality vs. attributiveness | scope

Annotation

C. argues that opacity-transparency is not due to relative scope but rather to whether a definite description embedded below a verb of propositional attitude is used referentially or attributively.

Reprints

Cole, Peter. 1978. On the origins of referential opacity. In Cole, Peter, ed. Syntax and semantics 9: Pragmatics. Academic Press. pp. 1–22.