"referent for" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to something that serves as a point of reference or is the object of a reference in a sentence. Example: The pronoun "he" in the sentence "John likes to play soccer, but he prefers basketball" is the referent for the subject "John".
It is this sort of constructionist account that offers the possibility of a social referent for a term construed on a causal theory of reference, as noted below (see Mallon 2006).
The latter factor, emotional responses associated with particular concepts, has been argued to provide an emotional (internal) "sensory" referent for some concepts16.
As do many Fregeans, Searle holds that "what's in the head" is sufficient to determine a unique referent for proper names and general terms.
"On the face of it, Chip is the last person I'd fall in love with," Mr. McClatchey said, adding that before meeting Mr. Kidd his only referent for Superman was Nietzsche.
In brief, Marshall Curry, the young director of "Street Fight," has hit the documentary jackpot: the movie will become the inescapable referent for media coverage of the new campaign.
Once you have got rid of the body as a natural referent for design, and no longer think "pictorially" about objects, grids and repeats begin to appear as alternative systems, whether you are in Japan, Montmartre, or Hancock.
One international non-governmental organization (NGO), Helvetas, and four government rural councils based in the Northwest Region of Cameroon constitute the empirical referent for the study.
If ever there was a referent for nullity, it is the Karoo: miles of nothing; very little, apparently, going on; a stillness so profound it resounds in the ears.
I, too, love "Seinfeld," but is there not a problem when the show is cited as a referent for one's Jewish identity?
Self-referential phenotype matching, or using one's own cues as a referent for recognizing kin, is expected in species with multiple paternity or maternity to discriminate among full siblings and half-siblings, or in nepotistic contexts to accurately assess relatedness.
This dissertation discusses how the design and circulation of arredamento provided an architectural referent for the management, articulation, and synchronization of Italian society in response to the perceived dissolution of its specificity and its fragmentation.
