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

    Accommodation is not a semantic operation but a pragmatic inference, so DRT's formal machinery cannot directly encode it without appeal to extra-theoretical resources.

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