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[单项选择] Most words are "lexical words", i.e. nouns signifying "things", the majority of which are abstract concepts rather than physical objects in the world; only "proper nouns" have specific and unique referents in the everyday world. The communicative function of a fully-functioning language requires the scope of reference beyond the particularity of the individual instance. While each leaf, cloud or smile is different from all others, effective communication requires general categories or "universals". Anyone who has attempetd to communicate with people who do not share their language will be familiar with the limitations of simply pointing to things, given that the vast majority of lexical words in a language exist on a high level of abstraction and refer to classes of things such as "buildings" or to concepts like "construction".
We lose any one-to-one correspondence of word and thing the moment we group instances into classes. Other than lexical words, language consists of "functio
A. Language has other functions than that of reference.
B. Once a word is grouped into a class, no one-to-one correspondence existsbetween it and what it signifies.
C. Many words refer to objects that do not exist in the world.
D. Function words do not refer to objects.
E. Proper nouns usually refer to unique entities.
