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Partial Accommodation and Activation in Definites

The notions accommodation and binding of presuppositions, as used in the DRT-based framework of Van der Sandt and Geurts, are critically assessed. Examples are presented which suggest the need for a narrower interpretation of, in particular, the term accommodation and the differentiation between accommodation proper and the process of presupposing hearer-old but discourse-new information. The notions are applied in a proposal for a new annotation scheme for information status, which is illustrated on some examples. The significance of the scheme is briefly demonstrated in a small study into the prosodic properties of a German corpus of radio news.