<p> '<a href="/uploads/Property%20paper%202023.pdf">Reference to Properties in Natural Language</a>'. To appear in A. Fisher and A.S. Maurin (eds.): <em>Routledge Handbook of Properties.</em></p> <p><em>Abstract: </em>After a short, perspectival overview of the semantics of potential property-referring terms, this paper presents new and surprising generalizations about explicit property-referring terms like 'the property of being wise', which raise fundamental issues regarding ontology and learnability and a core-periphery distinction in natural language ontology.</p>