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file change semantics: a standalone construct

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Semantics

account in which discourse builds up a file of cards for referents, indefinites open new cards and definites must pick up a familiar one.

In semantics, file change semantics refers to account in which discourse builds up a file of cards for referents, indefinites open new cards and definites must pick up a familiar one. This meaning comes from Heim (1983) in Meaning, Use, and Interpretation of Language.[1]

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discourse6 fields · 10 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs interpretation4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs must2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Heim, I. (1983). File Change Semantics and the Familiarity Theory of Definiteness. In Meaning, Use, and Interpretation of Language (pp. 164-189). DE GRUYTER. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110852820.164

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