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    Supports→Definite descriptions such as 'Pedro's sister' can be accommodated when no prior discourse referent is available.

    Accommodation becomes feasible when the referring expression provides enough descriptive content to identify a new referent.

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    The binding theory incorporates the notion of accommodation as follows. Presuppositions, according to the theory, introduce information that prefers to be linked to discourse referents that are already available in the DRS, and in this respect they are like pronouns. However, if a suitable discourse referent is not available, a new one will be accommodated, and the presupposition is linked to that. Generally speaking, accommodation is not an option in the interpretation of pronouns, and a possi

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