Gerald P. Delahunty
List of John Benjamins publications for which Gerald P. Delahunty plays a role.
2012 An analysis of The thing is that S sentences Pragmatics 22:1, pp. 41–78 | Article
I refer to the sentences that are the subject of this paper as Thing sentences (TSs), illustrated by The thing is that it’s not my phone. These are copular specificational sentences with a definite singular subject and a finite complement clause. Prior research claimed that TSs focus attention on… read more
2011 Inferentials in spoken English Pragmatics 21:3, pp. 307–340 | Article
Although there is a growing body of research on inferential sentences (Declerck 1992, Delahunty 1990, 1995, 2001, Koops 2007, Pusch 2006), most of this research has been on their forms and functions in written discourse. This has left a gap with regards to their range of structural properties and… read more
2006 A relevance theoretic analysis of Not that sentences: “Not that there is anything wrong with that” Pragmatics 16:2/3, pp. 213–245 | Article
Not that sentences (NTSs), like the one in the title, have been little studied. This paper, based on a corpus of authentic instances of the form, provides the first thorough examination of the interpretations assigned to NTSs in context and an account for those interpretations. The brief version… read more
2000 On the Spanish inferential construction ser que Pragmatics 10:3, pp. 301–322 | Article
Spanish (along with English and many other languages) has inferential sentences such as No es que no quiera: Es que no sabe querer, ‘It’s not that she doesn’t love; it’s that she doesn’t know how to love.’ We describe the grammar and pragmatics of these sentences and show how their pragmatic… read more
1995 The inferential construction Pragmatics 5:3, pp. 341–364 | Article