'Abstract Objects and the Core-Periphery Distinction in the Ontological and Conceptual Domain of Natural Language'. To appear in Falguera, J.L. / C. Martínez (eds.): Abstract Objects. For and Against. Synthese Library, Dordrecht, 2019.
Abstract: This paper elaborates a core-periphery distinction in the ontological and the conceptual domain of language, a distinction that was the basis for the central thesis of my 2013 book Abstract Objects and the Semantics of Natural Language.