Comparative Concept: inactive referent (inf)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
inactive referent (inf)
| Typ | information packaging |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | inactive referent • inactive • noncontaining inferrable |
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Definition
a referent for which the speaker and hearer have a discourse file (also described as: the referent is in the speaker's long-term memory) but which generally has not been activated in the discourse, at least not recently. (Section 3.3.1)