But, it is controversial whether definite reference to stuff is singular reference.
Laycock attempts to dissolve the problem by attacking what led to it, viz., that all reference is singular reference, and mass reference is reference to singular sums (which have all of their parts essentially).
As well as singular reference, there is plural reference (e.g., 'The gerbils in the pet store') and mass reference (e.g., 'the water in Lake Michigan').
Laycock (1972) argues that there is definite reference of mass expressions, such as 'that water', 'the water in the tub', but that this reference is not singular reference.
The analysis of metaphorical modality shows that first-person singular reference I was selected frequently.
In the study of the qualitative and quantitative properties of solutions of some fractional differential equations, many inequalities with singular kernels have been developed (for example, see [1 18] and the references therein).
This week, another favorite grammar gaffe: the failure to match singular with singular, plural with plural.
Holman writes with singular thematic boldness.
(4) The reflexive pronoun sin is used with singular or plural subjects, except in Danish, in which it is used only with singular subjects.
4. Hence some interpreters have understood intuition as providing us with singular direct reference see especially Posy 2000 for an illuminating understanding of that, and several related, ideas.
