Comparative Concept: pragmatically specific referent (inf)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
pragmatically specific referent (inf)
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Alias(se) | pragmatically specific referent • pragmatically specific (indefinite) referent • pragmatically specific indefinite referent |
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a referent introduced into the discourse by the speaker that is normally referred to again in subsequent discourse. We will use the shorter term 'pragmatically specific'. (Section 3.4.1)