Perspectives on Linguistic Structure and Context : studies in honor of Knud Lambrecht / edited by Stacey Katz Bourns, Harvard University ; Lindsy L. Myers, University of Missouri, Kansas City.

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A number of studies of Left Dislocation (LD) in spoken French within the Interactional Linguistics (IL) framework (de Fornel 1988; Pekarek Doehler 2001; Chevalier 2011b) have been critical of the information-structure analyses of this construction as set forth in Lambrecht (1981, 1994) and Barnes (1985). This discussion attempts to clarify the original information-structure analysis, arguing that the pragmatic definition of LD should be limited to the explicit marking of the sentence-topic and its associated comment. This topic-comment configuration is compatible with a large variety of partic.

Perspectives on Linguistic Structure and Context; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; References; Acknowledgements; I. Grammatical constructions; The information structure of ditransitives: Informing scope properties and long-distance dependency constraints ; 1. Introduction; 2. What is information structure?; 3. Topicality and quantifier scope; 4. The ditransitive construction; 4.1 Ditransitive construction and scope facts; 4.2 Interaction of the ditransitive with questions, passives; 5. Conclusion; References.

Non-promotional passives and unspecified subject constructions: Navigating the typological Kuiper Belt1. Introduction; 2. The Irish autonomous construction; 3. Polish vs. Ukrainian; 4. The Icelandic "New Impersonal" construction; 5. The -ya construction in Northern and Central Pomo: Passive or active?; 5.1 Syntactic properties of the unexpressed argument; 5.2 Semantic properties of the unexpressed argument; 5.3 Other subject properties; 5.4 Anomalies; 6. Conclusion ; References.

On the relationship between sentence focus category, subject-verb order, and genericity: A preliminary analysis of some Italian unaccusatives 1. Introduction; 2. Genericity, sentence focus category, and subject-verb inversion ; 2.1 Genericity ; 2.2 Sentence focus category and subject-verb order ; 2.2.1 Sentence focus category; 2.2.2 Postverbal subject position; 3. SF and VS order in unaccusatives denoting change of location and change of state ; 3.1 Particular (specific) sentences ; 3.2 Characterizing (generic) sentences.

4. SF and VS order in Italian unaccusatives denoting lack/absence and necessity 4.1 Mancare and servire in particular sentences ; 4.2 Mancare and servire in characterizing sentences; 5. Discussion ; 5.1 Characterizing sentences cannot be focal; 5.2 Unaccusatives of change of location/state vis-à-vis mancare and servire; 6. Conclusion; References; Frames and the interpretation of omitted arguments in English; 1. Introduction; 2. A taxonomy of omissions; 2.1 Complications; 2.1.1 Difficulties identifying the interpretation type; 2.1.2 Non-instantiation.

3. Predicting the interpretation type of a null complement3.1 The framal implicational account; 3.2 Accounting for exceptions; 4. Competing explanations; 4.1 Selectional restrictions ; 4.2 The Aktionsart-based account; 5. Motivating the frame-based generalization; 6. Narrow scope generalizations; 7. Conclusion; References; Interactive frames and grammatical constructions; 1. Introduction; 2. Interactive frames; 3. Connecting grammatical constructions to interactive frames ; 4. Right dislocations in French assessments; 4.1 The paradoxical functions of RD in French discourse.

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