WT 4.4

semantically specific referent

a.k.a. pragmatically nonspecific (but semantically specific) (indefinite) referent

a referent introduced into the discourse by the speaker that is not normally referred to again in subsequent discourse. The term semantically specific indicates that the referent is not in a nonreal context -- that is, it is not a nonspecific referent. We will use the shorter term pragmatically nonspecific and assume that such referents are also semantically specific. (Section 3.4.1)

Information Packing

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Attribute

Has As Attribute

identity unknown

Function

Is Function Of

free modification construction

indefinite pronoun

pragmatically nonspecific pronoun

Hierarchy

Has as subtype

specific known referent

specific unknown referent

Is subtype of

reference, referent