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Re: [lojban] Speaker specificity: {.i da'i na vajni}



On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 12:33 PM, And Rosta <and.rosta@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't know what having "nonspecific referents" is. If a specific referent is one underdetermined by the description, is a nonspecific one one that is fully determined by the description, e.g. a generic?

Nice. Is "underdetermined by the description" a common definition or test for specificity?  I'm not sure it excludes generics though. In:

 "Certain things are better left unsaid."

would you agree that "certain things" is +specific and +generic?

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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