Betsy K. Barnes

List of John Benjamins publications in which Betsy K. Barnes is involved.

Title

The Pragmatics of Left Detachment in Spoken Standard French

Betsy K. Barnes

Left detachment constructions (LDs) (e.g. un buffet de campagne, c’est un meuble) are examined in a corpus of informal spontaneous conversation between educated native speakers of French. The overwhelming majority of these constructions are shown to have a clearly pragmatic motivation. The author’s… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:3] 1985. viii, 123 pp.

Articles

Barnes, Betsy K. 1992 John Oldham's Satiric Poetry and the Beast Fable Bestia: Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society, Bennani, Benjamin (ed.), pp. 45–54 | Article

Barnes, Betsy K. 1985 A Functional Explanation of French Nonlexical Datives Studies in Language 9:2, pp. 159–195 | Article

The unity of French lexical and nonlexical uses of the dative clitic is made apparent by a functional analysis according to which the dative clitic always represents a 'theme' of the sentence, where thematicity is defined as greater relative saliency based on certain purely semantic (not pragmatic)… read more

Barnes, Betsy K. 1980 The Notion of 'Dative' in Linguistic Theory and the Grammar of French Lingvisticæ Investigationes 4:2, pp. 245–292 | Article