Testing predictions of the Givenness Hierarchy framework: A crosslinguistic investigation

Autor:	Jeanette K. Gundel, Mamadou Bassene, Amel Khalfaoui, Linda Humnick, Bryan James Gordon
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Communication Hierarchy business.industry Arabic ENCODE Language and Linguistics Linguistics language.human_language Focus (linguistics) Hierarchy theory Artificial Intelligence language Cognitive status Psychology business Implicature
Zdroj:	Journal of Pragmatics. 42:1770-1785
ISSN:	0378-2166
DOI:	10.1016/j.pragma.2009.09.010
Popis:	This paper reports on a study that tests predictions of the Givenness Hierarchy theory by extending it to four languages not yet studied in this respect – Eegimaa, Kumyk, Ojibwe, and Tunisian Arabic. Three hypotheses are tested: I. If a language encodes the distinction between two adjacent statuses on the hierarchy, it will also encode distinctions between higher statuses; II. All languages encode distinctions between the two highest statuses, ‘in focus’ and ‘activated’; III. Languages will not have forms that encode the set difference between two statuses. Results of the study provide support for all three hypotheses.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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