Appositive Relative Clauses in English: Discourse functions and competing structures
Rudy Loock
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 22] 2010. xiii, 232 pp.
Rudy Loock
List of John Benjamins publications for which Rudy Loock plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
2013 Is there interference of usage constraints? A frequency study of existential there is and its French equivalent il y a in translated vs. non-translated texts Target 25:2, pp. 252–275 | Article
We examine the possible impact of frequency differences between a construction in L1 and its equivalent in L2 on translations. Our case is that of existential there in English and existential il y a in French. Using corpus evidence, we first confirm previous claims that existential there is used… read more
2013 Close encounters of the third code: Quantitative vs. Qualitative analyses in corpus-based translation studies Interference and normalization in genre-controlled multilingual corpora, Lefer, Marie-Aude and Svetlana Vogeleer (eds.), pp. 61–86 | Article
The aim of the article is to complement a quantitative study on existential constructions in French and English, both in translated and original texts and based on the exploitation of comparable corpora (Cappelle & Loock 2013). What this article shows is that such an overall quantitative approach… read more
2013 Extending further and refining Prince’s taxonomy of given/new information: A case study of non-restrictive, relevance-oriented structures Pragmatics 23:1, pp. 69–91 | Article
The aim of this article is to complement and refine Ellen Prince’s well-known taxonomy of given/new information (Prince 1981, 1992), which distinguishes between discourse-related and assumed familiarity-related newness/givenness. What we suggest is that a new category should be added to the… read more
2012 Appositive relative clauses and their competing allostructures in English: An information-packaging approach Constraints in Discourse 3: Representing and inferring discourse structure, Benz, Anton, Manfred Stede and Peter Kühnlein (eds.), pp. 207–226 | Article
The goal of this paper is to compare appositive relative clauses (henceforth ARCs) to other structures that convey the same information, in order to determine the morphosyntactic, semantic and above all pragmatic factors conditioning the choice of structure. Alternatives to ARCs examined here… read more
2010 Appositive Relative Clauses and their prosodic realization in spoken discourse Constraints in Discourse 2, Kühnlein, Peter, Anton Benz and Candace L. Sidner (eds.), pp. 163–178 | Article
Recent research on discourse has shown that Appositive Relative Clauses (ARCs) can be defined positively in spite of a long tradition in which they are defined asymmetrically with respect to Determinative Relative Clauses (DRCs). Particularly, Loock (2007) has shown that ARCs fulfill specific… read more
2007 'Are you a good which or a bad which?' The relative pronoun as a plain connective Connectives as Discourse Landmarks, Celle, Agnès and Ruth Huart (eds.), pp. 71–87 | Article