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Publication details [#53078]

Gundel, Jeanette K., Amel Khalfaoui, Mamadou Bassene, Bryan Gordon and Linda Humnick. 2010. Testing predictions of the Givenness Hierarchy framework: A crosslinguistic investigation. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (7) : 1770–1795.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | prediction | testing

Language as a subject

Arabic, Tunisian | Eegima | Kumyk | Ojibwe

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study tests three hypotheses of the Givenness Hierarchy theory, in four languages not yet examined in this respect: Tunisian Arabic, Kumyk, Eegimaa, and Ojibwe.