Cipriani, Enrico2024-05-222024-05-222016"Linguistics Beyond and Within", 2016, Vol. 2, pp. 44-602450-5188https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/7148In this paper, I will focus on Chomsky’s interpretation of the notion of reference. I will summarize Chomsky’s criticisms against the externalist interpretation of such notion, and I will then focus on the internalist (and syntactic) interpretation that the MIT linguist provides. Then I will focus on the relation between the internalist interpretation and the notion of truth, discussing in particular Casalegno and Hinzen’s objections: I will point out that truth does not represent a particular problem for the internalized reference. Finally, I will show how Chomsky explains, inside the internalist perspective, the phenomenon of communication. In Conclusions, I will sketch two important points.plAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/internalized referenceinternalist vs. subjective truthcommunicationreference vs. referential actsconstitutional uniformity of speakersI-languagetruth conditionsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article10.31743/lingbaw.5637