On the basis of the Cratylus, Gaetano Licata has reconstructed, in the essay ‘Plato’s theory of language. Perspectives on the concept of truth’ (2007, Il Melangolo), the relationship between the Cratylus and the ‘Sophist’ and the Platonic conception of semantics, according to which names have a natural link, (an essential foundation) with their "nominatum".
Gaetano Licata, in his essay "Plato's theory of language. Perspectives on the concept of truth" (2007, Il Melangolo), has explored the link between Cratylus and the Sophist, as well as Plato's conception of semantics, which posits that names have a natural connection to their referents.