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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Publicado en:	Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 38; no. 5; pp. 377 - 436
Autores principales:	Coppock, Elizabeth, Beaver, David
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Springer Nature Oct2015
Materias:	Semantics (Philosophy) Locative constructions (Grammar) Language ability testing Discourse analysis Reading motivation Reading comprehension
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