Pamela A. Downing

List of John Benjamins publications in which Pamela A. Downing is involved.

Titles

Numeral Classifier Systems: The Case of Japanese

Pamela A. Downing

Numeral Classifier Systems considers the functional significance of the Japanese numeral system, its conclusions based on a corpus of 500 uses of classifier constructions drawn from oral and written Japanese texts.Interestingly, although the Japanese system appears to conform at least superficially… read more

[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 4] 1996. xx, 336 pp.

Word Order in Discourse

Edited by Pamela A. Downing and Michael Noonan

This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers dealing with the problem of word order variation in discourse. Word order variation has often been treated as an essentially unpredictable phenomenon, a matter of selecting randomly one of the set of possible orders generated by the grammar.… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 30] 1995. x, 595 pp.

The Linguistics of Literacy

Edited by Pamela A. Downing, Susan D. Lima and Michael Noonan

This volume grew out of the Seventeenth Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium, which was held in Milwaukee on April 8-10, 1988. The theme of the conference was the relationship between linguistics and literacy. In this volume, a selection of papers are presented which… read more

[Typological Studies in Language, 21] 1992. xx, 334 pp.

Articles (5) | Order by:

Downing, Pamela A. 1996 Proper Names as a Referential Option in English Conversation Studies in Anaphora, Fox, Barbara A. (ed.), pp. 95–144 | Article

Downing, Pamela A. 1995 Word order in discourse: By way of introduction Word Order in Discourse, Downing, Pamela A. and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. 1–27 | Article

Downing, Pamela A. and Susan D. Lima 1992 Introduction The Linguistics of Literacy, Downing, Pamela A., Susan D. Lima and Michael Noonan (eds.), pp. ix–xx | Miscellaneous

Clancy, Patricia M. and Pamela A. Downing 1987 The use of wa as a cohesion marker in Japanese oral narratives Perspectives on Topicalization: The case of Japanese wa, Hinds, John, Shoichi Iwasaki and Senko K. Maynard (eds.), pp. 3–56 | Article

Downing, Pamela A. 1986 The Anaphoric Use of Classifiers in Japanese Noun Classes and Categorization: Proceedings of a symposium on categorization and noun classification, Eugene, Oregon, October 1983, Craig, Colette G. (ed.), pp. 345–376 | Article