Incidence of article with NT names

Micheal Palmer mwpalmer at earthlink.net
Sun Jun 27 00:31:47 EDT 1999


At 6:27 AM -0400 6/24/99, Jonathan Ryder wrote regarding the use of the
article with names of people:

>
>PS what's 'salience'?
>

"Salience" is a broader term than "emphasis". Emphatic uses of a word are
salient, but so are some non-emphatic uses of the same word. The first
occurrence of a name in a narrative is salient, for example, but it may not
be particularly emphatic. Calling a particular use of a name "salient"
simply means  that the name stands out for some reason (perhaps because it
is emphatic, but perhaps for some other reason) in the context in question.


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