Abbr.Meaning TOC Top Of Concrete Construction, Civil Engineering, Drawings SOP Setting-Out Point Construction, Construction Industry, Engineering SS Stainless Steel Piping, Engineering, Mechanics WC Water Closet Architecture, Building, Construction DS Downspout Construction, Architecture, Drawings CT Ceramic ...
In this article, I argue that neither of the two main approaches to definiteness, familiarity or unique identifiability, provide necessary or sufficient conditions for the use of the definite article in English. I propose instead that the basic meaning of the article is to signal the accessibil...
Semantically, the nominative PA attributes a quality to the referent of the subject holistically, whereas the partitive attributes it in a distributive way to the (conceived) components of the referent. I show that this distributive meaning often gives rise to the incremental conceptualization of the...