Identifiability and definiteness in Chin
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Chen, Ping
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Article
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2004
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
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English
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This article explores how the pragmatic notion of identifiability is encoded in Chinese. It presents a detailed analysis of the distinctive linguistic devices, including lexical, morphological, and position in sentence, which are employed in Chinese to indicate the interpretation of referents in res