The Role of Expectancy in Choice of Referring Expressions
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Depending on the context of use, the English determiner this can be either definite or indefinite (Prince 1981). On the one hand, it functions as a demonstrative determiner alongside that, and, on the other hand, it is a determiner for indefinite noun phrases alongside the simple indefinite article a (Perlman 1969, Prince 1981, Wald 1983, among others). This paper focuses on the latter use of this, which occurs in colloquial, mainly conversational English, as shown in (1).
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تاریخ انتشار 2011