Publications

Publication details [#2907]

Eastman, Carol M. and Elizabeth A. Edwards. 1979. New information and contrastiveness in Haida. Papers in Linguistics 12 (1-2) : 39–56.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contrastiveness | given vs. new information | grammatical function | syntax1

Language as a subject

Haida

Annotation

E. and E. argue that in Haida formal grammatical categories such as 'subject' and 'object' are less important in the structural organization of sentences than functional semantic categories such as 'old information' and 'contrastiveness'.