TY  - CHAP
A1  - Weskott, Thomas
T1  - Stop bashing givenness : a note on Elke Kasimir´s "questions-answers test and givenness"
T2  - Approaches and findings in oral, written and gestural language / Ishihara, S., M. Schmitz, and A. Schwarz (eds.) ; Working Papers of the SFB 632, Interdisciplinary studies on information structure ; Vol. 3
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2005
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/10070
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1112599
UR  - http://www.sfb632.uni-potsdam.de/publications/isis03_2weskott.pdf
SN  - 978-3-937786-01-8
SP  - 53
EP  - 62
PB  - Univ.-Verl.
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -