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Publication details [#4144]
Gundel, Jeanette Kohn. 1978. Stress, pronominalization and the given-new distinction. Working Papers in Linguistics 10 (2) : 1–13.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
G. distinguishes two separate notions that have been discussed under the given-new distinction, and calls them activated-unactivated and topic-comment respectively. Then their linguistic relevance is shown by discussing how they interact with pronominalization and sentence stress in English.