Gregory Ward

List of John Benjamins publications in which Gregory Ward 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

Kehler, Andrew and Gregory Ward 2006 Referring expressions and conversational implicature 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. 177–193 | Article

Ward, Gregory and Andrew Kehler 2005 Syntactic Form and Discourse Accessibility Anaphora Processing: Linguistic, cognitive and computational modelling, Branco, António, Tony McEnery and Ruslan Mitkov (eds.), pp. 365–384 | Article

Ward, Gregory 1999 A Comparison of postposed subjects in English and Italian Function and Structure: In honor of Susumu Kuno, Kamio, Akio and Ken-ichi Takami (eds.), pp. 3–22 | Article

Ward, Gregory 1997 The Battle over Anaphoric ‘Islands’: Syntax vs. Pragmatics Directions in Functional Linguistics, Kamio, Akio (ed.), pp. 199–220 | Article