James Griffiths
List of John Benjamins publications in which James Griffiths is involved.
Articles
2015 Prepositional object gaps in British English Linguistics in the Netherlands 2015, Köhnlein, Björn and Jenny Audring (eds.), pp. 63–74 | Article
In British English (BrE), a subset of pronominal objects of prepositions in have/with possessives may be optionally realised as prepositional object gaps (POGs). In this short paper, we introduce three core properties of this previously unreported phenomenon, and then outline a preliminary… read more
2014 Parenthesis and presupposition in discourse Linguistics in the Netherlands 2014, Auer, Anita and Björn Köhnlein (eds.), pp. 39–52 | Article
Parentheses do not affect the semantic truth conditions of the host clause, but they do affect the discourse structure. We propose a maximally simple update system for the conversational context. Presuppositions are treated as past requests for the interlocutor’s consent. Parentheticals act like… read more