The grammar-pragmatics interface : essays in honor of Jeanette K. Gundel / edited by Nancy A. Hedberg, Ron Zacharski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hedberg, Nancy Ann.

Zacharski, Ron.

Gundel, Jeanette K.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., v. 155.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., v. 155

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Reference (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

viii, 345 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The Grammar-Pragmatics Interface

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

List of contributors

Introduction

Part I Pragmatics and Syntax

2. Lexical subjects and the conflation strategy

-Laura Michaelis and Hartwell Francis

3. The information structure of it-clefts,wh-clefts and reverse wh-clefts in English*

-Nancy Hedberg and Lorna Fadden

4. Epistemic would, open propositions, and truncated clefts

-Gregory Ward, Jeffrey Kaplan, and Betty Birner

5. It's over: Verbal ‑le in Mandarin Chinese

-Hooi Ling Soh and Mei Jia Gao

Part II Pragmatics and Reference

6. Knowing who's important: Relative discourse salience and Irish pronominal forms

-Ann Mulkern

7. The correspondence between cognitive status and the form of kind-referring NPs

-Kaja Borthen

8. Context dependence and semantic types in the interpretation of clausal arguments

-Michael Hegarty

9. Implicit internal arguments, event structure, predication and anaphoric reference

-Francis Cornish

10. 'Switch-polarity' anaphora in English and Norwegian

Thorstein Fretheim

11. What on earth: Non-referential interrogatives

Maria Polinsky

Part III Pragmatic and social variables

12. A grammar in every register?

Mira Ariel

13. Apologies-form and function

Suellen Rundquist

14. Subjectivity, perspective and footing in Japanese co-constructions

Polly Szatrowski

Index of names

Index of subjects

The series Pragmatics &amp

Beyond New Series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612154553

9781282154551

1282154559

9789027292438

9027292434

OCLC:

320323999