Chapter 18 Specificity and Definiteness Theoretical perspectives
While definiteness encodes the information that the sender assumes that the addressee has, specificity encodes the knowledge that the sender has and the anchoring to an item. The chapter focuses on lexical determiners and non-manual marking. As the example below shows, the use of this sign does not...
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Taylor & Francis
2021
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