James Griffiths
List of John Benjamins publications for which James Griffiths plays a role.
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