article인 the가 쓰이지 못했지만 두 번째 cat에 대한 언급에서는 특정한 cat에 대한 존재가 확인되어 the가 사용되었음을 확인할 수 있다. 하지만 (6)에서와 같이 uniqueness에 대한 presupposition이 서로가 공유하는 세상의 지식에 의해 이미 성립되어 있는 경우도 있다.
2.2.2. Specificity and Indefinites in English
Standard
(an / some / much) eggs and flour.
How (many / much / do) money do we have left?
I need (any / a few / some) information about the trains to New York.
For lunch, I had a salad and a (some / slice / piece) of pizza today.
We use the definite article ‘the’ when * We are thinking of one particular thing. Do you have a car? (not a particular car) I washed the car yesterday. (my car)
Certain forms of AdjP occur right at the beginning of the NP, before the indefinite article a.
E.g.
a. [How big a box] do we need?
b. We'd select [this big a box].
a. It seemed [such a computer].
b. [What a handsome] I was.
[noun]
- virtual disaster *his almost death
[verb]
- It virtually evaporated. He almost died.
[adjective]
- It was virtually impossible. He was
means that a new item entirely, bearing little if any similarity to the native language item, must be learned such as definite/indefinite article, There construction, Relative nouns and aspect of the verb. In addition, split is the most difficult level that one item in the first language becomes two or more in the second language; there are more tense and modal verbs in English than the Korean.