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  • From: David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] David's article
  • Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:35:24 +1000


Definiteness is typically said to have a number of interrelated traits, viz., familiarity and identifiability, uniqueness and inclusiveness, and identifiability (see Lyons 1999: 1-17).

Definite articles, I take it, are morphemes whose prototypical function is to characterise the referent of a noun phrase as being something which the speaker assumes is known to the addressee (previous mention, general knowledge, contextual inference, etc.).

Lyons, Christopher. 1999. Definiteness. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Regards,
David Kummerow.



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re:[b-hebrew] David's article
From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
To: David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>
Date: 20/06/2007 9:53 AM

David,

Would you please explain to us what you precisely mean by "definite".

Isaac Fried, Boston University





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