The Grammar–Pragmatics Interface

Essays in honor of Jeanette K. Gundel

Editors

Nancy Hedberg

| Simon Fraser University

Ron Zacharski

| University of Mary Washington

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This collection of papers celebrates the work of Jeanette K. Gundel, who has contributed to the field of the grammar-pragmatics interface through her publications on the syntactic realization of topic and comment and the cognitive status of referring expressions, as well as by inspiring colleagues to make contributions to the overall field of pragmatics. This volume collects together papers from colleagues and former students on pragmatics and syntax, pragmatics and reference, and pragmatics and social variables. The volume includes papers devoted to explicating the grammar-pragmatics interface, with the focus of the papers ranging from Gricean and post-Gricean pragmatics, construction grammar, and genre theory to formal semantics, as well as papers devoted to expanding on Gundel's own original approach to factors such as the cognitive status decisions underlying speakers' choice of referring expression and the topic and focus decisions underlying speakers' choice of syntactic construction.

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 155] 2007. viii, 345 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.155

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii–viii
Introduction	1–15
I. Pragmatics and Syntax	17
Lexical subjects and the conflation strategy Laura A. Michaelis and Hartwell S. Francis	19–48
The information structure of it-clefts, wh-clefts and reverse wh-clefts in English Nancy Hedberg and Lorna Fadden	49–76
Epistemic would, open propositions and truncated clefts Gregory Ward, Jeffrey P. Kaplan and Betty J. Birner	77–90
It’s over: Verbal -le in Mandarin Chinese Hooi Ling Soh and Mei Jia Gao	91–109
II. Pragmatics and Reference	111
Knowing who’s important: Relative discourse salience and Irish pronominal forms Ann E. Mulkern	113–142
The correspondence between cognitive status and the form of kind-referring NPs Kaja Borthen	143–169
Context dependence and semantic types in the interpretation of clausal arguments Michael Hegarty	171–188
Implicit internal arguments, event structure, predication and anaphoric reference Francis Cornish	189–216
‘Switch-polarity’ anaphora in English and Norwegian Thorstein Fretheim	217–243
What on earth: Non-referential interrogatives Maria Polinsky	245–262
III. Pragmatic and Social Variables	263
A grammar in every register? The case of definite descriptions Mira Ariel	265–292
Apologies — form and function: “I think it was your foot I was stepping on” Suellen Rundquist	293–312
Subjectivity, perspective and footing in Japanese co-constructions Polly E. Szatrowski	313–339
Index of names	341–343
Index of subjects	344–345

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2009. Publications received. Lingua 119:9 ► pp. 1366 ff.

Piazza, Roberta & Melanie J. Green

2015. In Handbook of Pragmatics,

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Subjects

Linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Pragmatics

Syntax

BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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