Overview

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, pertaining to grammatical constructions such as left dislocation, unaccusatives, null complements, and passives. While the first half of the book presents studies involving a range of languages from Russian to Irish to Italian, the second section is dedicated to papers focused on French. These five chapters feature the application of Construction Grammar and/or Information Structure frameworks to prosody and second language processing, as well as to several distinctive spoken French constructions: clefts, left dislocations, and interrogatives. Collectively, this book offers substantial reading for those interested in the juncture of structure and context, notably a critical take on the important legacy of a preeminent linguist.

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Author:   Stacey Katz Bourns (Harvard University) ,  Lindsy L. Myers (University of Missouri, Kansas City)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   244
Weight:   0.615kg
ISBN:  

9789027256492

ISBN 10:   9027256497
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   05 March 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction (by Katz Bourns, Stacey); 2. Acknowledgements; 3. Part I. Grammatical constructions; 4. The information structure of ditransitives: Informing scope properties and long-distance dependency constraints (by Goldberg, Adele E.); 5. Non-promotional passives and unspecified subject constructions: Navigating the typological Kuiper Belt (by O'Connor, Catherine); 6. On the relationship between sentence focus category, subject-verb order, and genericity: A preliminary analysis of some Italian unaccusatives (by Russi, Cinzia); 7. Frames and the interpretation of omitted arguments in English (by Ruppenhofer, Josef); 8. Interactional frames and grammatical constructions (by Blyth, Carl S.); 9. Topics at the left periphery in Russian (by Polinsky, Maria); 10. Part II. Topics in French Grammar; 11. Final compression in French as a phrasal phenomenon (by Fery, Caroline); 12. Pourquoi in Spoken French: Corpus-based function-form mapping (by Myers, Lindsy L.); 13. Processing constraints and information structure as moderating factors on first- and second-language use of the causal conjunction parce que (by Reichle, Robert V.); 14. Contrasting c'est -clefts and it-clefts in discourse (by Katz Bourns, Stacey); 15. Left dislocation in French: Information structure vs. (?) interactional linguistics (by Kerr, Betsy); 16. Index

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Inspired, intellectually stimulating, innovative research, which is not just true to the spirit of Lambrecht's contributions to linguistics by bringing together structure, meaning, and interaction, but which further extends his ideas into new ways of connecting grammar and context. A volume well worth reading! -- Mirjam Fried, Charles University

Inspired, intellectually stimulating, innovative research, which is not just true to the spirit of Lambrecht’s contributions to linguistics by bringing together structure, meaning, and interaction, but which further extends his ideas into new ways of connecting grammar and context. A volume well worth reading! -- Mirjam Fried, Charles University

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