ABSTRACT
WehaveseenthatContrastmayoccuronitems inwhataretraditionallycalled"grammatical" categories,suchasWEandTHROUGHinpassage(1)of Ch.6.ButcanContrastoccuronALLgrammatical items?Andhowwell-definedisthenotionof grammaticalcategory,anyway?Infact,ifweexamine thepotentialforContrastivenessacrossthevarious categoriesofgrammaticalitemlistedinsection 6.6,someinterestingvariationsemerge.Wemay examineeachoftheseclassesinturn:first,the DETERMINERS:
Somecleardistinctionsmaybeobservedhere. First,theclearestContrastiblecasesappearto havethemeaningof'unique'<inthecaseofthe>or 'single'(inthecaseofa>cf.<1a,f,g>.Yet otherapparentlyuniquecases,e.g.<1b,c,e>,are notobviouslyContrastible.Generics(1d,j)arein nocircumstancesContrastible,andneitherevidently
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