Publications

Publication details [#7202]

Okamoto, Shigeko. 1981. The notion of giveness and the use of pronouns and ellipsis. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 7 : 222–235.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

consciousness | elliptical construction | given information | pronoun

Language as a subject

English | Japanese

Annotation

In an attempt to examine the linguistic significance of the notion of givenness (as defined in terms of consciousness), O. uses it to account for the use of pronouns in English and ellipsis in Japanese.