Definite descriptions and cognitive status in English: why accommodation is unnecessary  

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Gundel, Jeanette K. ; Hedberg, Nancy ; Ronzacharski

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English Language and Linguistics (Full Text & ada di PROQUEST th. 2005 - terbaru) vol. 5 no. 2 (Nov. 2001), page 273-295.
Fulltext: vol 5.2 ; 273-295.pdf (146.69KB)

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A commonly held view of English de®nite articles is that they signal that the referent of an NP is familiar to the addressee. However, it is well known that not all de®nite article phrases meet this familiarity requirement. To account for such nonfamiliar uses, Heim (1982) invokes the mechanism of `accommodation', which enables an addressee to remedy a violation of the familiarity requirement by adding assumptions to the `common ground'. In this article we argue that the Givenness Hierarchy framework provides an insightful account of all uses of de®nite article phrases without requiring an appeal to accommodation. Such an account provides a uni®ed treatment of de®nite article phrases, including demonstrative phrases and personal pronouns, while at the same time distinguishing among them in a principled way. This proposal is supported by results of a corpus-based examination of the use of de®nite articles and by an examination of cleft presuppositionsÿ

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