Name: Descriptions in Context
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Author: Condoravdi, Cleo A.
ISBN: 9781138696990

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Cleo A. Condoravdi

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Routledge

Language

English

Pages

216

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Hardcover

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9781138696990

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Synopsis "Descriptions in Context"

First published in 1997, this book focuses on the semantics of definite and indefinite descriptions -- taking the presuppositional theory of definiteness and indefiniteness proposed by Heim as a starting point. It seeks to show that there exists a special type of indefinites that have an interpretation commonly associated with definites. It further argues that the felicity conditions associated with indefinite NP's can vary and develops a more fine-grained theory of novelty within the framework of File Change Semantics. More generally, this work can be seen as providing an empirical argument in favour of a dynamic theory of meaning and against the more traditional truth-conditional theory.

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