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THE WAYS OF REPRESENTING A SITUATION IN THE SENTENCE AS DEFINITE / INDEFINITE

THE WAYS OF REPRESENTING A SITUATION IN THE SENTENCE AS DEFINITE / INDEFINITE


Author:  Z.K. Sabitova

Affiliation:  University of Helsinki, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University

Abstract
The article researches a category of definiteness / indefiniteness in terms of functional syntax. This semantic category is characterized as a specificator, which complicates the center of a semantic structure. Also it is one of the ways to interpret the actual situation.

Keywords:  situation, interpretation, category of definiteness / uncertainty

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