A komplex demonstratívumok mint közvetve referáló kifejezések

This paper presents an overview of current formal semantic analyses aimed at describing the interpretation of complex demonstratives (that dog, that black dog) based on Hungarian examples. Kaplan's (1989a, 1989b) classic theory treats complex demonstratives as directly referential expressions, but contemporary approaches challenge this view and argue in favour of indirect referentiality. King (2001) and Ahn (2022) suggest that complex demonstratives are special definite descriptions with a hidden argument, while Wolter (2006) argues in a situational semantic framework that complex demonstratives refer uniquely with respect to a contextually constrained situational parameter. The analyses presented not only offer a uniform treatment of both deictic and non-deictic uses of complex demonstratives, but can also capture the similarity between definite descriptions and complex demonstratives