The standard versions of predicativism are committed to the following two theses: (1) proper names are count nouns in all their (literal) occurrences (the syntactic aspect of predicativism), and (2) names do not refer to objects but express (non-relational) name-bearing properties (the semantic aspect of predicativism). The main motivation for predicativism is to provide a uniform explanation of referential names and predicative names. According to predicativism, predicative names are fundamental and referential names are explained by appealing to a null determiner functioning like “the” or “that.” This paper has two goals. The first is to reject the predicativists’ explanation of the two types of names. I present three syntactic counterexamples to the predicativists’ account of referential names: incorporation, modification, and measure phrase uses. The second goal is to present a novel strategy to explain the two types of names. I propose that referential names are fundamental but that there are null morphemes available for transforming a name into a count noun (and possibly into other syntactic categories).

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关于名称和可数名词之间的不对称性：反对谓词主义的句法论证

谓词主义的标准版本致力于以下两个论点：（1）专名在所有（字面）出现时都是可数名词（谓词主义的句法方面），以及（2）名称不指代对象而是表达（非-关系）带有名称的属性（谓词的语义方面）。谓词主义的主要动机是为指称名称和谓词名称提供统一的解释。根据谓词主义，谓词名称是基本的，引用名称是通过吸引像“the”或“that”这样的空确定词来解释的。本文有两个目标。首先是拒绝谓语主义者对两类名称的解释。我为谓词主义者对指称名称的解释提供了三个句法反例：合并、修改、和测量短语使用。第二个目标是提出一种新的策略来解释这两种类型的名称。我建议参考名称是基本的，但有空语素可用于将名称转换为计数名词（并可能转换为其他句法类别）。