This article argues that definite NPs are interpreted depending on contextual salience, rather than on the uniqueness condition of their descriptive content. The salience structure is semantically reconstructed by a global choice function that assigns to each set one (most salient) element. It is dy
Choice Functions and the Anaphoric Semantics of Definite NPs
β Scribed by Klaus von Heusinger
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 151 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1570-7075
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