Deferred reference

In natural language, a deferred reference is the metonymic use of an expression to refer to an entity related to the conventional meaning of that expression, but not denoted by it. Several types of deferred reference have been studied in the literature.

Examples

English

The following examples are from (Nunberg 1995):

(server to a co-worker in a deli) The ham sandwich is at table 7.
(restaurant patron to a valet, indicating a key) This is parked out back.
Yeats is still widely read.

gollark: Idea: philosophy, but with orbital laser strikes.

gollark: Orbital laser strikes on any pregnant people.

gollark: I'm not very "rich" personally, I have £1.90 in my bank account and mostly cheap old/used computery stuff, but my family is pretty "bourgeoisie", as silly communist people would say.

gollark: Ah, I see.

gollark: I can never remember which way round the percentiles go.

References

Nunberg, Geoffrey (1979). "The non-uniqueness of semantic solutions: Polysemy". Linguistics and Philosophy. 3 (2): 143–184. doi:10.1007/BF00126509. ISSN 0165-0157. OCLC 3127141.
Nunberg, Geoffrey (1995). "Transfers of meaning" (PDF). Journal of Semantics. 12 (2): 109–132. doi:10.1093/jos/12.2.109. ISSN 0167-5133. OCLC 49846877.
Ward, Gregory (2004). "Equatives and deferred reference" (PDF). Language. 80 (2): 262–289. doi:10.1353/lan.2004.0102. ISSN 0097-8507. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-03-25. Retrieved 2007-01-19.

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