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When readers or hearers interpret a definite associative NP, they must take into account that all definite NPs carry a presupposition of existential uniqueness. This implies that hearers or readers can access an entity which is presented as the only one of the type expressed by the N of the definite NP. In the case of associative definites which introduce a new entity, this entity must be easily...