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Title The Grammar-Pragmatics Interface : Essays in Honor of Jeanette K. Gundel / Edited by Nancy A. Hedberg, Ron Zacharski.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 345 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., v. 155
Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., v. 155. 0922-842X
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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 interfac.
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Subject Gundel, Jeanette K.
Gundel, Jeanette K.
Pragmatics.
Pragmatics.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Reference (Linguistics)
Reference (Linguistics)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Added Author Hedberg, Nancy Ann.
Zacharski, Ron.
Gundel, Jeanette K.
Other Form: Print version: Grammar-pragmatics interface. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, 2007 (DLC) 2007060660
ISBN 9789027292438 (electronic book)
9027292434 (electronic book)
9027253986 (alkaline paper)
9789027253989 (alkaline paper)
9789027253989 (alkaline paper)