TY  - JOUR
A1  - Weskott, Thomas
T1  - Stop bashing givenness!
T2  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
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.
KW  - givenness
Y1  - 2005
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/777
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8718
SN  - 1866-4725
SN  - 1614-4708
IS  - 3
SP  - 53
EP  - 62
ER  -