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Publication details [#2571]

Davison, Alice. 1981. Contextual effects on 'generic' indefinites: Cross-linguistic arguments for pragmatic factors. In Sankoff, David and Henriette Cedergren, eds. Variation omnibus. Linguistic Research. pp. 359–368.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | generic utterance | indefinite expression | pronoun | reference

Language as a subject

English | French

Annotation

A study of how pragmatic factors (having to do with the context of utterance and the speaker's intended reference insofar as that can be determined from the context of utterance) influence the choice of indefinite pronouns (and related articles) in French and English.