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Definiteness and determinacy.

This paper distinguishes between definiteness and determinacy. Definiteness is seen as a morphological category which, in English, marks a (weak) uniqueness presupposition, while determinacy consists in denoting an individual. Definite descriptions are argued to be fundamentally predicative, presupp...

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Published in:Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 38; no. 5; pp. 377 - 436
Main Authors: Coppock, Elizabeth, Beaver, David
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Oct2015
Subjects:
Semantics (Philosophy)
Locative constructions (Grammar)
Language ability testing
Discourse analysis
Reading motivation
Reading comprehension
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