First published in 1997, this book focuses on the semantics of
definite and indefinite descriptions - taking the presuppositional
theory of definiteness and indefiniteness proposed by Heim as a
starting point. It seeks to show that there exists a special type
of indefinites that have an interpretation commonly associated with
definites. It further argues that the felicity conditions
associated with indefinite NP's can vary and develops a more
fine-grained theory of novelty within the framework of File Change
Semantics. More generally, this work can be seen as providing an
empirical argument in favour of a dynamic theory of meaning and
against the more traditional truth-conditional theory.
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