Publications

Publication details [#7747]

Prince, Ellen F. 1979. On the given/new distinction. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 15 : 267–278.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

given vs. new information | narrative

Annotation

P. proposes a rough model for handling one range of phenomena that has gone by the name 'given/new', and illustrates it with a fragment from an oral narrative.