Francis Cornish
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591899 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francis Cornish |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francis |
| FAMILY NAME | Cornish |
| SIGNATURE | CORNISH F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3265-5506 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A discourse-functional approach to theticity, subtypes of integrated relative clause and extraposition in English
The article is an attempt to develop Francis and Michaelis’ (F&M) (2014, 2017) account of ‘relative clause extraposition’ (RCE) in English, in terms of a more discourse-oriented dimension. On the basis of a corpus study, these authors select certain constituent types, enabling a comparison between configurations with and without RCE orderings. The result is a ‘prototypical’ sequence of constituent types that is claimed to predict whether RCE is f…
On the place and role of ‘discourse’ in the Functional Discourse Grammar model. The interface between language system and language use
Text, discourse, context
L’anaphore revisitée
L'anaphore revisitée : fonctionnements discursifs et interactionnelsLes contributions à ce numéro sont consacrées non seulement au mécanisme de la référence anaphorique en tant que tel, en proposant une révision fondamentale de son fonctionnement par rapport à des travaux antérieurs, mais aussi à certains de ses aspects discursifs et interactionnels.Ce numéro s'inscrit en complément du dernier volume publié de travaux diversifiés en français 1 , …
Les données en linguistique
L’article est une réflexion critique sur la matière première des travaux en linguistique, à savoir, les exemples présentés pour l’analyse. La discussion permettra de mettre en évidence l’attitude du linguiste vis-à-vis de la langue et du langage sous-tendant son choix d’exemples et la manière dont il les traite. Deux grands types de données sont contrastés : les exemples inventés par l’auteur lui-même, puis des extraits choisis par l’auteur prove…
Anadeixis and the signalling of discourse structure
By “anadeixis” (a termed first coined by Ehlich, 1982) is meant, prototypically, the indexical functioning of certain context-bound expressions to target discourse entities which are either not yet topical, or whose erstwhile topical status has faded. It is the discourse-structuring function of anadeictic indexicals that will be the particular focus of this study. The basis for the discussion will be two short whole texts, in two languages (Frenc…
Revisiting the system of English relative clauses
The goal of this article is to uncover the system underlying three types of English relative clauses, and to characterise their distinctive uses in discourse: NP-integrated ones, namely restrictive and ‘a-restrictive’ relative clauses, and non-integrated ones, represented by non-restrictive relatives. The area at issue is central, since understanding the functioning of these constructions requires reference to the fundamental interface between gr…
On the dual nature of the Functional Discourse Grammar model
Strict' anadeixis, discourse deixis and text structuring
Anaphora
The traditional definition of anaphora in purely co-textual terms as a relation between two co-occurring expressions is in wide currency in theoretical and descriptive studies of the phenomenon. Indeed, it is currently adopted in on-line psycholinguistic experiments on the interpretation of anaphors, and is the basis for all computational approaches to automatic anaphor resolution (see Mitkov 2002). Under this conception, the anaphor, a referenti…
Inter-sentential anaphora and coherence relations in discourse
How indexicals function in texts
Relations de cohérence et anaphores en contexte inter-phrastique
Francis Cornish : Cohérence relations and anaphora in an inter-sentential context : a perfect symbiosis The various types of semantic and pragma-semantic relations obtaining between either two or three successive or separated text sentences within a discourse are not without effect on the interpretation and the discourse functioning of anaphors occurring in the second and third members of such groups of sentences. The article attempts to pinpoint…
Relations de cohérence et anaphores en contexte inter-phrastique
Francis Cornish : Cohérence relations and anaphora in an inter-sentential context : a perfect symbiosis The various types of semantic and pragma-semantic relations obtaining between either two or three successive or separated text sentences within a discourse are not without effect on the interpretation and the discourse functioning of anaphors occurring in the second and third members of such groups of sentences. The article attempts to pinpoint…
Downstream’ effects on the predicate in Functional Grammar clause derivations
The article deals with the dynamic, retroactive effects within a clause derivation of various ‘downstream’ specifications (that is, at subsequent levels in the derivation) on the semantic structure and aspectual character of the predicator at the ‘nuclear’, ‘core’ and ‘extended’ predication layers within standard Functional Grammar (Dik 1997a) – specifically, the insertion of given types of argument expressions within the predicate frame and the …
Anaphora
Article Anaphora: lexico-textual structure or means for utterance integration within discourse? A critique of the functional-grammar account was published on May 2, 2002 in the journal Linguistics (volume 40, issue 3)
Antecedentless’ anaphors
Taking a cognitive perspective, and concentrating on instances of exophora (or so-called ‘antecedentless’ anaphora), where by definition there is no co-occurring expression in terms of which a given anaphor might be interpreted (i.e. a potential ‘antecedent’), I aim to show, firstly, that so-called exophora falls within the category of anaphora proper and not deixis; secondly, that it is in terms of a conceptual representation of the situation be…
Integrating argument structure, clause semantics, grammatical functions and micro-discourse
So Be It
The aim of the article is to determine whether so and it fulfil distinct discourse-building roles, in their predicate- and proposition-anaphoric guise. Is the choice between them determined by the syntactic or semantic nature of their ‘antecedent’, or of the context in which the choice between them is to be made? Or do they in fact themselves determine their ‘antecedent’ (or at least superimpose upon it a characteristically distinctive interpreta…
Anaphoric Relations in English and French
Discourse structure and anaphora
Anaphoric Pronouns: Under Linguistic Control or Signalling Particular Discourse Representations?
The article is a contribution to the debate between Tasmowski & Verluyten (1982, 1985) and Bosch (1983, 1984, 1987) as to how the form as well as the interpretation of anaphoric pronouns is determined. TV rightly criticize B's tests as to whether a particular third-person pronoun is functioning semantico-syntactically or referential-anaphorically; however, their examples and arguments do not warrant the conclusion that there is no substantive dis…
Anaphora and semantic interpretation
Anaphora and semantic interpretation
Discourse structure and anaphora
How indexicals function in texts
Antecedentless’ anaphors
Taking a cognitive perspective, and concentrating on instances of exophora (or so-called ‘antecedentless’ anaphora), where by definition there is no co-occurring expression in terms of which a given anaphor might be interpreted (i.e. a potential ‘antecedent’), I aim to show, firstly, that so-called exophora falls within the category of anaphora proper and not deixis; secondly, that it is in terms of a conceptual representation of the situation be…
Strict' anadeixis, discourse deixis and text structuring
Inter-sentential anaphora and coherence relations in discourse
Anaphora
Article Anaphora: lexico-textual structure or means for utterance integration within discourse? A critique of the functional-grammar account was published on May 2, 2002 in the journal Linguistics (volume 40, issue 3)
On the dual nature of the Functional Discourse Grammar model
Relations de cohérence et anaphores en contexte inter-phrastique
Francis Cornish : Cohérence relations and anaphora in an inter-sentential context : a perfect symbiosis The various types of semantic and pragma-semantic relations obtaining between either two or three successive or separated text sentences within a discourse are not without effect on the interpretation and the discourse functioning of anaphors occurring in the second and third members of such groups of sentences. The article attempts to pinpoint…
Anaphoric Pronouns: Under Linguistic Control or Signalling Particular Discourse Representations?
The article is a contribution to the debate between Tasmowski & Verluyten (1982, 1985) and Bosch (1983, 1984, 1987) as to how the form as well as the interpretation of anaphoric pronouns is determined. TV rightly criticize B's tests as to whether a particular third-person pronoun is functioning semantico-syntactically or referential-anaphorically; however, their examples and arguments do not warrant the conclusion that there is no substantive dis…
Anaphora and semantic interpretation
Anaphoric Relations in English and French
Discourse structure and anaphora
So Be It
The aim of the article is to determine whether so and it fulfil distinct discourse-building roles, in their predicate- and proposition-anaphoric guise. Is the choice between them determined by the syntactic or semantic nature of their ‘antecedent’, or of the context in which the choice between them is to be made? Or do they in fact themselves determine their ‘antecedent’ (or at least superimpose upon it a characteristically distinctive interpreta…
Integrating argument structure, clause semantics, grammatical functions and micro-discourse
Antecedentless’ anaphors
Taking a cognitive perspective, and concentrating on instances of exophora (or so-called ‘antecedentless’ anaphora), where by definition there is no co-occurring expression in terms of which a given anaphor might be interpreted (i.e. a potential ‘antecedent’), I aim to show, firstly, that so-called exophora falls within the category of anaphora proper and not deixis; secondly, that it is in terms of a conceptual representation of the situation be…
Downstream’ effects on the predicate in Functional Grammar clause derivations
The article deals with the dynamic, retroactive effects within a clause derivation of various ‘downstream’ specifications (that is, at subsequent levels in the derivation) on the semantic structure and aspectual character of the predicator at the ‘nuclear’, ‘core’ and ‘extended’ predication layers within standard Functional Grammar (Dik 1997a) – specifically, the insertion of given types of argument expressions within the predicate frame and the …
Anaphora
Article Anaphora: lexico-textual structure or means for utterance integration within discourse? A critique of the functional-grammar account was published on May 2, 2002 in the journal Linguistics (volume 40, issue 3)
Relations de cohérence et anaphores en contexte inter-phrastique
Francis Cornish : Cohérence relations and anaphora in an inter-sentential context : a perfect symbiosis The various types of semantic and pragma-semantic relations obtaining between either two or three successive or separated text sentences within a discourse are not without effect on the interpretation and the discourse functioning of anaphors occurring in the second and third members of such groups of sentences. The article attempts to pinpoint…
Relations de cohérence et anaphores en contexte inter-phrastique
Francis Cornish : Cohérence relations and anaphora in an inter-sentential context : a perfect symbiosis The various types of semantic and pragma-semantic relations obtaining between either two or three successive or separated text sentences within a discourse are not without effect on the interpretation and the discourse functioning of anaphors occurring in the second and third members of such groups of sentences. The article attempts to pinpoint…
How indexicals function in texts
Inter-sentential anaphora and coherence relations in discourse
Anaphora
The traditional definition of anaphora in purely co-textual terms as a relation between two co-occurring expressions is in wide currency in theoretical and descriptive studies of the phenomenon. Indeed, it is currently adopted in on-line psycholinguistic experiments on the interpretation of anaphors, and is the basis for all computational approaches to automatic anaphor resolution (see Mitkov 2002). Under this conception, the anaphor, a referenti…
Strict' anadeixis, discourse deixis and text structuring
On the dual nature of the Functional Discourse Grammar model
Revisiting the system of English relative clauses
The goal of this article is to uncover the system underlying three types of English relative clauses, and to characterise their distinctive uses in discourse: NP-integrated ones, namely restrictive and ‘a-restrictive’ relative clauses, and non-integrated ones, represented by non-restrictive relatives. The area at issue is central, since understanding the functioning of these constructions requires reference to the fundamental interface between gr…
Anadeixis and the signalling of discourse structure
By “anadeixis” (a termed first coined by Ehlich, 1982) is meant, prototypically, the indexical functioning of certain context-bound expressions to target discourse entities which are either not yet topical, or whose erstwhile topical status has faded. It is the discourse-structuring function of anadeictic indexicals that will be the particular focus of this study. The basis for the discussion will be two short whole texts, in two languages (Frenc…
Les données en linguistique
L’article est une réflexion critique sur la matière première des travaux en linguistique, à savoir, les exemples présentés pour l’analyse. La discussion permettra de mettre en évidence l’attitude du linguiste vis-à-vis de la langue et du langage sous-tendant son choix d’exemples et la manière dont il les traite. Deux grands types de données sont contrastés : les exemples inventés par l’auteur lui-même, puis des extraits choisis par l’auteur prove…
L’anaphore revisitée
L'anaphore revisitée : fonctionnements discursifs et interactionnelsLes contributions à ce numéro sont consacrées non seulement au mécanisme de la référence anaphorique en tant que tel, en proposant une révision fondamentale de son fonctionnement par rapport à des travaux antérieurs, mais aussi à certains de ses aspects discursifs et interactionnels.Ce numéro s'inscrit en complément du dernier volume publié de travaux diversifiés en français 1 , …
Text, discourse, context
On the place and role of ‘discourse’ in the Functional Discourse Grammar model. The interface between language system and language use
A discourse-functional approach to theticity, subtypes of integrated relative clause and extraposition in English
The article is an attempt to develop Francis and Michaelis’ (F&M) (2014, 2017) account of ‘relative clause extraposition’ (RCE) in English, in terms of a more discourse-oriented dimension. On the basis of a corpus study, these authors select certain constituent types, enabling a comparison between configurations with and without RCE orderings. The result is a ‘prototypical’ sequence of constituent types that is claimed to predict whether RCE is f…
Philosophy (20 works) · Computer Science (19 works) · Linguistics (19 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (17 works) · Artificial Intelligence (14 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (13 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Indexicality (7 works)