identifiedness
English
Etymology
From identified + -ness.
Noun
identifiedness (uncountable)
- The quality of being identified.
- Antonym: unidentifiedness
- 1968, Ruth Crymes, “Articles and Article-Introduced Nominal Clusters”, in Some Systems of Substitution Correlations in Modern American English (Janua Linguarum: Studia Memoriae Nicolai van Wijk Dedicata; 23), The Hague; Paris: Mouton, →ISBN, →LCCN, chapter 4 (Substitution in the Nominal Hierarchy), […], page 115:
- Viewed syntagmatically, article-introduced nominal clusters have been judged either to refer to an already mentioned or to an already known referent or not so to refer. If they do so refer, such reference is either anaphoric or deictic, and it signals identifiedness. Bloomfield seems to equate definiteness with identifiedness. And Paul Christophersen implies that identifiedness is one component of familiarity, familiarity being the distinctive meaning he assigns to the definite article the, […]
- 1997 August 6, Dorit Abusch, Mats Rooth, “Discourse Referent Predication”, in Epistemic NP Modifiers, →OCLC, page 9:
- In this case, the relative clause who is not identified is predicted to be false, matching our intuitions. Summing up the analysis, predications of identifiedness and unidentifiedness are analyzed as relations between a discourse referent and the output file introduced by the description of content.
- 2000, Lisa Heinzerling, “The Rights of Statistical People”, in Robin West, editor, Rights (The International Library of Essays in Law & Legal Theory: Second Series), Aldershot, Hampshire; Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate/Dartmouth, published 2001, →ISBN, part III (Aspirational Rights: Possibilities and Histories), page 622:
- Observers have asserted that the identifiedness of the miners, the little girl, and the balloonist makes us especially willing to help them. As an empirical matter, this assertion is unproved and probably mistaken. As a normative matter, it seems clear that the rights of people not to be harmed should not depend on the identifiedness of the people who will be harmed.