TY  - CHAP
A1  - Heusinger, Klaus von
T1  - Specificity and definiteness in sentence and discourse structure
T2  - Sentence type and specificity / Ed. by Klaus von Heusinger ; Kerstin Schwabe, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 2000; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 24
N2  - In this paper, I argue that this informally given list of characteristics covers only a certain subclass of specific indefinites. […]  In particular, I dispute the definition of specific indefinites as "the speaker has the referent in mind" as rather confusing if one is working with a semantic theory. Furthermore, I discuss "relative specificity", it. cases in which the specific indefinite does not exhibit wide, but intermediate or narrow scope behavior. Based on such data, I argue that specificity expresses a referential dependency between introduced discourse items. Informally speaking, the specificity of the indefinite expression something [...] expresses that the reference of the expression depends on the reference of another expression, here, on the expression a monk, not the speaker.
KW  - Definitheit
KW  - Spezifität
KW  - Syntax
Y1  - 2001
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/30815
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-308157
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/fileadmin/material/ZASPiL_Volltexte/zp24/zaspil24-heusinger.pdf
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 24
SP  - 167
EP  - 189
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
CY  - Berlin
ER  -