Journal article
Grammatical marking of givenness
Abstract
Schwarzschild (Nat Lang Semant 7:141–177, 1999)’s account of givenness elaborates a notion of complementarity of givenness and focus in an intricate way: while givenness is semantically interpreted, focus is grammatically marked. It has been noticed, however, that under certain circumstances givenness in English is grammatically marked as well. Movement plays a role in this process. This paper provides further evidence for givenness marking. I …
Authors
Kučerová I
Journal
Natural Language Semantics, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 1–30
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
March 2012
DOI
10.1007/s11050-011-9073-y
ISSN
0925-854X