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Peer reviewedBurton-Roberts, Noel – Language, 1976
Proposes that NPs determined by the generic indefinite article represent abstract concepts and as such are not inherently different from indefinite NPs appearing in copulative predicates. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Function Words, Linguistic Theory, Surface Structure
