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Publication details [#23356]
Birner, Betty J. 1988. Possessives vs. indefinites: Pragmatic inference and determiner choice. Papers in Pragmatics 2 (1-2) : 136–146. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Journal DOI
10.1075/iprapip
Annotation
It is argued that the communicative choice whether to use a possessive pronoun or an indefinite article is determined by the interaction among syntactic construction, extralinguistic context, and real-world knowledge.