Lindsy L. Myers

List of John Benjamins publications in which Lindsy L. Myers is involved.

Title

Perspectives on Linguistic Structure and Context: Studies in honor of Knud Lambrecht

Edited by Stacey Katz Bourns and Lindsy L. Myers

In this tribute to Knud Lambrecht, a pioneer of Information Structure, a diverse group of scholars examines the intersection of syntax, discourse, pragmatics, and semantics. The six chapters in the first section of the volume consider issues of grammar with new theoretical and applied insights,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 244] 2014. xv, 244 pp.

Articles

Katz Bourns, Stacey and Lindsy L. Myers 2014 Introduction Perspectives on Linguistic Structure and Context: Studies in honor of Knud Lambrecht, Katz Bourns, Stacey and Lindsy L. Myers (eds.), pp. vii–xiv | Article

Myers, Lindsy L. and Stéphanie Pellet 2014 Pourquoi in Spoken French: Corpus-based function-form mapping Perspectives on Linguistic Structure and Context: Studies in honor of Knud Lambrecht, Katz Bourns, Stacey and Lindsy L. Myers (eds.), pp. 157–182 | Article

WH-Interrogatives in spoken French are exceptional due both to the diversity of syntactic forms available to express the same propositional content (Coveney 1996) as well as the parameters that influence their use. The causal interrogative adverb pourquoi ‘why’ has a notably deficient paradigm… read more