Comparative Concept: specific known referent (inf)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
specific known referent (inf)
| Typ | information packaging |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | specific known referent |
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a real-world referent whose identity is known to the speaker but not the hearer. Example: if Masha met with someone near the university is used in a context where the speaker knows the identity of the person Masha met, then someone is a specific known pronoun expressing a specific known referent. (Section 3.5)