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The Grammar–Pragmatics Interface
Essays in honor of Jeanette K. Gundel
This collection of papers celebrates the work of Jeanette K. Gundel, who has contributed to the field of the grammar-pragmatics interface through her publications on the syntactic realization of topic and comment and the cognitive status of referring expressions, as well as by inspiring colleagues to make contributions to the overall field of pragmatics. This volume collects together papers from colleagues and former students on pragmatics and syntax, pragmatics and reference, and pragmatics and social variables. The volume includes papers devoted to explicating the grammar-pragmatics interface, with the focus of the papers ranging from Gricean and post-Gricean pragmatics, construction grammar, and genre theory to formal semantics, as well as papers devoted to expanding on Gundel's own original approach to factors such as the cognitive status decisions underlying speakers' choice of referring expression and the topic and focus decisions underlying speakers' choice of syntactic construction.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 155] 2007. viii, 345 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 July 2008
Published online on 1 July 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- List of contributors | pp. vii–viii
- Introduction | pp. 1–15
- I. Pragmatics and Syntax
- Lexical subjects and the conflation strategyLaura A. Michaelis and Hartwell S. Francis | pp. 19–48
- The information structure of it-clefts, wh-clefts and reverse wh-clefts in EnglishNancy Hedberg and Lorna Fadden | pp. 49–76
- Epistemic would, open propositions and truncated cleftsGregory Ward, Jeffrey P. Kaplan and Betty J. Birner | pp. 77–90
- It’s over: Verbal -le in Mandarin ChineseHooi Ling Soh and Mei Jia Gao | pp. 91–109
- II. Pragmatics and Reference
- Knowing who’s important: Relative discourse salience and Irish pronominal formsAnn E. Mulkern | pp. 113–142
- The correspondence between cognitive status and the form of kind-referring NPsKaja Borthen | pp. 143–169
- Context dependence and semantic types in the interpretation of clausal argumentsMichael Hegarty | pp. 171–188
- Implicit internal arguments, event structure, predication and anaphoric referenceFrancis Cornish | pp. 189–216
- ‘Switch-polarity’ anaphora in English and NorwegianThorstein Fretheim | pp. 217–243
- What on earth: Non-referential interrogativesMaria Polinsky | pp. 245–262
- III. Pragmatic and Social Variables
- A grammar in every register? The case of definite descriptionsMira Ariel | pp. 265–292
- Apologies — form and function: “I think it was your foot I was stepping on”Suellen Rundquist | pp. 293–312
- Subjectivity, perspective and footing in Japanese co-constructionsPolly E. Szatrowski | pp. 313–339
- Index of names | pp. 341–343
- Index of subjects | pp. 344–345
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