Sentence examples for a new referent from inspiring English sources

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Indefinite NP: 'A funny looking cat is sitting under the table' NP introduces a new referent into the narrative.

How can one intend to introduce a new referent and fail at the job?

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For example, we could say that in case of a clash, the new referent will win and the old referent will loose it label.

Then the two main parts of the sentence are analysed further, and the pronoun "it" triggers a rule which at once deals with the pronoun's lexical content and its context dependence; i.e. it says that we must select a new discourse referent, link it to a discourse referent made available by the preceding discourse, and update the DRS so as to record these changes.

An indefinite introduces a new discourse referent into the discourse representation structure for the discourse it is in.

Sahrawi refugees and nomads recovered the breeding of piebald camels for the same material and cultural reasons but with a new cultural referent: the Sahrawi people.

This way is embodied in versions of Discourse Representation Theory: the drs-construction algorithm always invites us to choose a fresh variable letter when a new discourse referent is needed.

But Frege also held that in oblique (ungerade) contexts such as "John believed that Odysseus came ashore" and "The author of the Odyssey says that Odysseus came ashore" this sense becomes the new referent of the fictional name.

Arguably, Alex has the option to take turns like this precisely because Graham has been able to influence the conversation by introducing new referents and generally taking a more active role.

We modify the given world/assignments pairs to pairs of worlds and extended assignments, where our extended assignments are constrained by the old ones, but take all possible values on the new referents.

For him, fresh metaphors, metaphors that have not been reduced to the commonplace, reveal a new way of seeing their referents.

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