Referentsiaalse
Referentsiaalse is a theoretical term used in linguistics to describe the study of referential relations within discourse. It denotes a framework for analyzing how linguistic expressions introduce, maintain, and re-invoke referents—entities that a text is about—across sentences and clauses. The word combines the concept of reference with a suffix that marks an adjectival or analytic usage in several European-language traditions, and it is employed to discuss referential semantics in a concise way.
In practice, referentsiaalse analysis focuses on how referents are encoded in syntax and semantics, how pronouns,
The approach is related to, yet distinct from, broader theories of reference and discourse representation. It
Applications of referentsiaalse concepts appear in descriptive linguistics, cross-linguistic research, corpus studies, and computational models of