Topic, Antitopic and Verb Agreement in Non-Standard French
Knud Lambrecht
[Pragmatics & Beyond, II:6] 1981. vii, 113 pp.
Knud Lambrecht
List of John Benjamins publications for which Knud Lambrecht plays a role.
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Subjects Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Syntax
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2010. Constraints on subject-focus mapping in French and English: A contrastive analysis. Comparative and Contrastive Studies of Information Structure, Breul, Carsten and Edward Göbbel (eds.), pp. 77–100
Grammars reflect universal constraints on the mappings between the information structure of propositions and the formal structure of sentences. These constraints restrict the possible linkings between pragmatic relations (topic vs. focus), pragmatic properties (given vs. new), semantic roles (agent… read more | Article
2006. Cognitive Constraints on Assertion Scope: The Case of Spoken French Parce que. New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics: Vol. I: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics, Nishida, Chiyo and Jean-Pierre Y. Montreuil (eds.), pp. 143 ff.
Cross-linguistic studies have shown that various adverbial subordinating conjunctions can also function to introduce independent assertions. In the domain of causal conjunctions, there is a striking cross-linguistic trend for subordinating ‘because’ to supersede the corresponding coordinating… read more | Article
2005. 1. Definite null objects in (spoken) French: A Construction-Grammar account. Grammatical Constructions: Back to the roots, Fried, Mirjam and Hans C. Boas (eds.), pp. 13–55
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2004. On the interaction of information structure and formal structure in constructions: The case of French right-detached comme-N. Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective, Fried, Mirjam and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 157–199
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2002. Topic, focus and secondary predication: The French presentational relative construction. Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2000: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 2000, Utrecht, 30 November–2 December, Beyssade, Claire, Reineke Bok-Bennema, Frank Drijkoningen and Paola Monachesi (eds.), pp. 171–212
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2000. When subjects behave like objects: An analysis of the merging of S and O in Sentence-Focus Constructions across languages. Studies in Language 24:3, pp. 611–682
This paper is concerned with the cross-linguistic expression of a universal information-structure category called the ‘thetic’ or ‘sentence-focus’ (SF) category. The SF category differs from the unmarked ‘predicate-focus’ (PF) or ‘categorical’ category by the absence of a topic-comment relation… read more | Article
1996. The pragmatics of case: On the relationship between semantic, grammatical, and pragmatic roles in English and French. Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics: In honor of Charles J. Fillmore, Shibatani, Masayoshi and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 145 ff.
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1988. Presentational cleft constructions in spoken French. Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse, Haiman, John and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.), pp. 135 ff.
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1987. On the status of SVO sentences in French discourse. Coherence and Grounding in Discourse: Outcome of a Symposium, Eugene, Oregon, June 1984, Tomlin, Russell S., pp. 217–261
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