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(2014) Frames and concept types, Dordrecht, Springer.
This paper is about the difficulties involved in establishing criteria for definiteness. A number of possibilities are considered – traditional ones such as strength, uniqueness, and familiarity, as well as several which have been suggested in the wake of Montague's analysis of NPs as generalized quantifiers. My tentative conclusion is that Russell's uniqueness characteristic (suitably modified) holds up well against the others.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-01541-5_14
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Abbott, B. (2014)., The indefiniteness of definiteness, in T. Gamerschlag, D. Gerland, R. Osswald & W. Petersen (eds.), Frames and concept types, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 323-341.
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