Betty J. Birner

List of John Benjamins publications in which Betty J. Birner is involved.

Titles

Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean studies in pragmatics and semantics in honor of Laurence R. Horn

Edited by Betty J. Birner and Gregory Ward

One of the most lively and contentious issues in contemporary linguistic theory concerns the elusive boundary between semantics and pragmatics, and Professor Laurence R. Horn of Yale University has been at the center of that debate ever since his groundbreaking 1972 UCLA dissertation. This volume… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 80] 2006. xii, 350 pp.

Information Status and Noncanonical Word Order in English

Betty J. Birner and Gregory Ward

This work provides a comprehensive discourse-functional account of three classes of noncanonical constituent placement in English – preposing, postposing, and argument reversal – and shows how their interaction is accounted for in a principled and predictive way. In doing so, it details the variety… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 40] 1998. xiv, 314 pp.

Articles (5) | Order by:

Ward, Gregory, Jeffrey P. Kaplan and Betty J. Birner 2007 Epistemic would, open propositions and truncated clefts The Grammar–Pragmatics Interface: Essays in honor of Jeanette K. Gundel, Hedberg, Nancy and Ron Zacharski (eds.), pp. 77–90 | Article

Birner, Betty J. 2006 Inferential relations and noncanonical word order Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean studies in pragmatics and semantics in honor of Laurence R. Horn, Birner, Betty J. and Gregory Ward (eds.), pp. 31–51 | Article

Birner, Betty J. 1996 Review of Geluykens (1992): From discourse process to grammatical construction: On left-dislocation in English & Ford (1993): Grammar in interaction: Adverbial clauses in American English conversations Studies in Language 20:2, pp. 455–465 | Review

Birner, Betty J. 1988 Possessives vs. indefinites: Pragmatic inference and determiner choice in English IPrA Papers in Pragmatics 2:1/2, pp. 136–146 | Article