Novelty and Familiarity for Free
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چکیده
In this paper we offer a novel resolution of a familiar tension, that between approaches in which the difference between definites and indefinites is based on uniqueness, and those in which it is based on novelty/familiarity. Advocates of uniqueness-based approaches such as Horn & Abbott (2013) and Coppock & Beaver (2015) have pointed out cases where the description is unique, but not familiar. For example, Coppock & Beaver (2015) use the following example:
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