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A pragmatic account of the definiteness effect in existencial sentences
- B. Abbott
- Psychology
- 1993
Abstract It is argued that the restriction on NPs in focus position in existential sentences is a result of the presentational function of such sentences, rather than a constraint to be stated in… Expand
Definiteness and Existentials.
- B. Abbott
- Psychology
- 1 March 1997
Prince 1992 reanalyzed the information status of NPs into two cross-cutting distinctions, one between NPs denoting entities that are new or old with respect to the discourse and another between NPs… Expand
Nonrestrictive Modifiers in Nonparenthetical Positions
- Marcin Morzycki, A. Munn, +9 authors G. Taranto
- 2008
The systematic but often subtle semantic differences between prenominal and postnominal adjectives first noted by Bolinger (1967) in many respects remain poorly understood. There remains a similar… Expand
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Presuppositions as nonassertions
- B. Abbott
- Psychology
- 1 September 2000
Abstract It is commonly assumed that the assertion/presupposition distinction maps fairly directly onto the distinction between new and old information. This assumption is made doubtful by… Expand
Presuppositions and common ground
- B. Abbott
- Computer Science
- 1 October 2008
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Thek/ϕ alternation in Turkish: Some experimental evidence for its productivity
This article presents evidence that a relatively minor regularity in the morphophonemics of Turkish is psychologically real for speakers of that language. The experimental procedure used was to… Expand
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