| The mats are paired with two black plastic dustpans in search of a referent. |
| The referent of the Mexican postmaster's comparative metaphor is itself left unspoken. |
| In a probe recall experiment, a word with a thematized referent was a better recall probe than a word with a non-thematized referent. |
| Experiment 2 included a preceding context in order to fix the referent of the target word and to exclude singular interpretations. |
| The central point for writing a history of the new woman is that the referent proved conditional, situational yet nonetheless tangible. |
| Pushing the analogy to its threshold, it runs the absurd risk of making the sign merge with its referent. |
