La Référence Floue
Edited by Laure Gardelle and Frédéric Landragin
Special issue of Lingvisticæ Investigationes 47:2 (2024) vi, 254 pp.
Laure Gardelle
List of John Benjamins publications in which Laure Gardelle is involved.
Reference: From conventions to pragmatics
Edited by Laure Gardelle, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin
This volume provides an innovative approach to the referential process thanks to its focus on the relationship between conventions and discourse pragmatics. It brings together a cross-section of current research on referential conventions and pragmatic strategies, in a number of different fields… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 228] 2023. vi, 349 pp.
Semantic Plurality: English collective nouns and other ways of denoting pluralities of entities
Laure Gardelle
This monograph proposes a comparative approach to all the ways of denoting ‘more than one’ entity, from collective and aggregate nouns (with the first-ever typology), to count plurals, partly substantivised adjectives and conjoined NPs. This semantic feature approach to plurality, which cuts across… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 349] 2019. x, 215 pp.
From Culture to Language and Back: The Animacy Hierarchy in language and discourse
Edited by Laure Gardelle and Sandrine Sorlin
Special issue of International Journal of Language and Culture 5:2 (2018) v, 190 pp.
The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns
Edited by Laure Gardelle and Sandrine Sorlin
This volume presents new research on the pragmatics of personal pronouns. Whereas personal pronouns used to have a reputation of poor substitutes for full NP’s, recent research shows that personal pronouns are a fundamental, if not universal, category, whose pragmatics is central to their… read more[Studies in Language Companion Series, 171] 2015. vi, 337 pp.
2024 Flou, vague et sous-détermination dans la référence La Référence Floue, Gardelle, Laure and Frédéric Landragin (eds.), pp. 143–153 | Article
La majorité des expressions référentielles, dans leur situation d’emploi, permettent l’identification précise d’un référent. D’autres, par exemple les pronoms anaphoriques quand plusieurs antécédents sont envisageables, conduisent à une ambiguïté, c’est-à-dire à des alternatives clairement… read more
2023 Lions, flowers and the Romans: Exception management with generic and other count plurals Reference: From conventions to pragmatics, Gardelle, Laure, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin (eds.), pp. 71–87 | Chapter
Research on generic bare plurals has frequently pointed out that even though they refer to the whole class, in characterizing sentences (e.g. birds fly) they commonly license exceptions (Krifka et al. 1995). While quantification and probability models have failed to account for all uses, the… read more
2023 Speakers, addressees and the referential process: A pragmatic approach Reference: From conventions to pragmatics, Gardelle, Laure, Laurence Vincent-Durroux and Hélène Vinckel-Roisin (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Chapter
2018 Introduction: Anthropocentrism, egocentrism and the notion of Animacy Hierarchy From Culture to Language and Back: The Animacy Hierarchy in language and discourse, Gardelle, Laure and Sandrine Sorlin (eds.), pp. 133–162 | Review article
2017 Are superordinates such as furniture and belongings collective nouns? Lingvisticæ Investigationes 40:2, pp. 150–172 | Article
One area of debate as to the boundaries of the class of “collective nouns” concerns non-count singular nouns such as furniture, which are typically used for several units of different kinds. Arguments for and against inclusion have been put forward, but ultimately, what has been noted is a… read more
2016 Lexical plurals for aggregates of discrete entities in English: Why plural, yet non-count, nouns? Lexical plurals and beyond, Lauwers, Peter and Marie Lammert (eds.), pp. 355–372 | Article
This paper studies why, for a plurality of discrete entities, a non-count plural might be preferred over a count noun or a non-count singular. Building partly on Wierzbicka (1985, 1988), it proposes two parameters: semantics, but also morphology. With lexical plurals, the items are construed as… read more
2015 Chapter 4. Sex-indefinite references to human beings in American English: Effective uses and pragmatic interferences. A case study of your child The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns, Gardelle, Laure and Sandrine Sorlin (eds.), pp. 69–92 | Article
This paper contributes to the study of effective uses of gender-inclusive pronouns in American English, following the proscription of systematic he and, sometimes, of they, with morphologically singular sex-indefinite antecedents. While a number of studies start from the sex-indefinite anaphors in… read more
2015 Chapter 1. Personal pronouns: An exposition The Pragmatics of Personal Pronouns, Gardelle, Laure and Sandrine Sorlin (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article