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Allerton, D.J. 1978. The notion of 'givenness' and its relation to presupposition and to theme. Lingua 44 : 133–168.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Annotation

Givenness concerns (the speaker's assumption about) the addressee's awareness of things about him. Presuppositions concern the beliefs of the speaker and the addressee. Themeness is a matter of linguistic performance, concerning the way sentences are planned and the order in which their constituent parts are processed.