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A Presuppositional Analysis of Specific Indefinites Common Grounds as Structured Information States
By Jae-Il Yeom
Copyright 1998
258 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
258 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 1998. In this book the author presents the view that although many linguists have been interested in specific indefinites, their theories are not quite satisfactory in that they have only tried to explore some aspects of specific indefinites. This paper assumes a standard notion of specificity, i.e., the notion of someone having-in-mind an individual or a relation. Under this... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Review of Previous Studies; Chapter 3 An Ambiguity View of Specificity; Chapter 4 The Semantics of Cognitive Contact in Information Theory; Chapter 5 Presupposition Projection and Scope of Specific Indefinites;
Biography
Authored by Jae-ll Yeom.
