 The Meinongian takes Pegasus in  (9a)  and  (9b)  to stand for a nonexistent object. There is an alternative view, though, on which it is an exceptional, empty occurrence of a name (Sainsbury 2005). Linguistic support for the Meinongian view comes from the fact that Pegasus in  (8a)  and  (8b)  fulfills standard criteria for referential terms, such as supporting anaphora and allowing for replacement by quantifiers (something), as well as from the compositional semantics of constructions with relative clauses as below (Moltmann 2016):