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		<title>Back from SBL</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a great time in New Orleans this week and am very glad to have met as many of you as I could. I apologize for not making the bloggers dinner, but we had so many HUC alumni from varying career stages present that I was able to get in a lot of great [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=600&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m here in New Orleans for SBL. I&#8217;m not sure if it is because I feel a little higher on the totem pole this year (it feels nice to say ABD, but it will really feel good to finally add the Ph). Perhaps it is because my network of friends has grown a bit so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=598&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting back up to speed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My main computer is an iBook G4 that is going on 6 years old now. For the last few months the hard drive has been spinning quite loudly and clicking at me, a sure sign of impending doom (plus I only had about 1/2 GB of free space left which meant it ran slooooow).
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		<title>A definiteness scale</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consider the set of sentences in example 1:
1 a. I went to see a doctor today.
1b. I went to see the doctor today.
1c. I went to see your doctor today.
1d. I went to see Dr. Brown today.
1e. I went to see that doctor today.
1f. I went to see her today.
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		<title>The identifiability scale</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I noted that the choice between &#8220;a car&#8221; and &#8220;the car&#8221; has to do with the assumption of whether the particular car is identifiable by the hearer. Thus the use of an indefinite phrase tips the hearer that they need to create a new &#8220;record&#8221;, while the definite noun phrase causes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=586&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Definiteness within Discourse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea of definiteness as a scalar rather than binary category comes from its correlation with identifiability. As mentioned in my previous post, identifiability has to do with the hearer&#8217;s ability to identify the referent of a particular expression. Thus the choice between &#8220;a car&#8221; and &#8220;the car&#8221; by a speaker has to do with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=582&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My &#8220;dream&#8221; job, just a couple years early</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Jack Sasson&#8217;s Agade list:
YALE UNIVERSITY, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, is seeking to fill a full-time appointment as Lector or Senior Lector with responsibility to teach Aramaic, Advanced Syriac, Ugaritic, and Comparative Semitics, beginning July 1, 2010. Competence in further Semitic languages is welcomed. Ph.D. preferred but not required. Interest in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=580&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More definiteness &#8211; the familiarity approach</title>
		<link>http://balshanut.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/more-definiteness-the-familiarity-approach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned in my last post, in studying definiteness, logical and semantic approaches tend to concentrate on issues such as existence and uniqueness and the truth or falsehood of a proposition in the real world. Discourse approaches, however, have been more interested in the pragmatics of definiteness, particularly the dynamic between the speaker and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=573&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A closer look at definiteness &#8211; the uniqueness approach</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In languages with the grammatical category of definiteness, the prototypical definite noun phrase is one marked with the definite article. This is usually contrasted with an indefinite article or bare noun phrase such as in example 1:
(1a) I bought the car today.
(1b) I bought a car today.
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		<title>Definiteness, information structure, and the particle את in BH</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bekins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a new series of posts I would like to introduce the research project behind my dissertation. My hope is that in being transparent during the writing process I can receive good feedback beyond my primary readers. The danger of being too transparent, of course, is that someone may borrow some of my ideas. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=balshanut.wordpress.com&blog=1463456&post=566&subd=balshanut&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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