Stop bashing givenness!
- Elke Kasimir’s paper (in this volume) argues against employing the notion of Givenness in the explanation of accent assignment. I will claim that the arguments against Givenness put forward by Kasimir are inconclusive because they beg the question of the role of Givenness. It is concluded that, more generally, arguments against Givenness as a diagnostic for information structural partitions should not be accepted offhand, since the notion of Givenness of discourse referents is (a) theoretically simple, (b) readily observable and quantifiable, and (c) bears cognitive significance.
| Author details: | Thomas Weskott |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8718 |
| ISSN: | 1866-4725 |
| ISSN: | 1614-4708 |
| Title of parent work (German): | Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632 |
| Subtitle (German): | A note on Elke Kasimir's "Questions-Answers Test and Givenness" |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Publication year: | 2005 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Contributing corporation: | Sonderforschungsbereich 632 Informationsstruktur <Potsdam> |
| Release date: | 2006/09/14 |
| Tag: | givenness |
| Issue: | 3 |
| First page: | 53 |
| Last Page: | 62 |
| Source: | Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632. - Vol. 3 |
| RVK - Regensburg classification: | ER 300 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
| DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
| Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632, ISSN 1866-4725 / ISIS (2005) 03 |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
| License (German): |  Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
| External remark: | erschienen in: Approaches and findings in oral, written and gestural language. - Potsdam : Univ.-Verl., 2005. - 244 S. (Interdisciplinary studies on information structure ; 3) ISBN 3-937786-01-5 URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8255 zugleich in Printform erschienen im Universitätsverlag Potsdam. |
