Specificity and Definiteness in Sentence and Discourse Structure  

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Heusinger, Klaus von

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 19 no. 3 (Aug. 2002), page 245-274.
Topik: Contrastive Analysis; Definiteness Sentence; Discourse Structure
Fulltext: vol 19, no 3, p 245-274.pdf (146.02KB)

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The paper gives a contrastive analysis of the two semantic categories specificity and definiteness. It argues against the traditional picture that assumes that specific expressions are a subclass of indefinite NPs. The paper rather assumes that the two categories are independent of each other. Definiteness expresses the discourse pragmatic property of familiarity, while specificity mirrors a more finely grained referential structure of the items used in the discourse. A specific NP indicates that it is referentially anchored to another discourse object. This means that the referent of the specific expression is linked by a contextually salient function to the referent of another expression.

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