Perspectives on Linguistic Structure and Context

Studies in honor of Knud Lambrecht

Editors

Stacey Katz Bourns | Harvard University

Lindsy L. Myers | University of Missouri, Kansas City

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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.

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

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.244

Table of Contents

Introduction

Stacey Katz Bourns and Lindsy L. Myers | pp. vii–xiv

Acknowledgements | pp. xv–xvi

Part I. Grammatical constructions

The information structure of ditransitives: Informing scope properties and long-distance dependency constraints

Adele E. Goldberg | pp. 3–16

Non-promotional passives and unspecified subject constructions: Navigating the typological Kuiper Belt

Catherine O'Connor and Joan Maling | pp. 17–38

On the relationship between sentence focus category, subject-verb order, and genericity: A preliminary analysis of some Italian unaccusatives

Cinzia Russi | pp. 39–56

Frames and the interpretation of omitted arguments in English

Josef Ruppenhofer and Laura A. Michaelis | pp. 57–86

Interactional frames and grammatical constructions

Carl S. Blyth and Dale Koike | pp. 87–108

Topics at the left periphery in Russian

Maria Polinsky and Eric Potsdam | pp. 109–130

Part II. Topics in French Grammar

Final compression in French as a phrasal phenomenon

Caroline Féry | pp. 133–156

Pourquoi in Spoken French: Corpus-based function-form mapping

Lindsy L. Myers and Stéphanie Pellet | pp. 157–182

Processing constraints and information structure as moderating factors on first- and second-language use of the causal conjunction parce que

Robert V. Reichle | pp. 183–198

Contrasting c'est -clefts and it-clefts in discourse

Stacey Katz Bourns | pp. 199–222

Left dislocation in French: Information structure vs. (?) interactional linguistics

Betsy Kerr | pp. 223–240

Index | pp. 241–244

“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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