A Semantic and Cognitive Interpretation of Double Referential Construction “Personal Pronoun + a + NP”
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Abstract
Meanings come from the objective world and the language knowledge is rooted in the encyclopedic one. And the successful interpretation of meanings does not depend on dictionaries. The use and understanding of the double referential construction “personal pronoun + a + NP” is involved in semantics and cognition. In addition, it has to depend on the context and human encyclopedic knowledge. Moreover, its semantic explanation can only be obtained through pragmatic inference.
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