Alice Davison
Biographic Data
| ID | 3823947 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alice Davison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alice |
| FAMILY NAME | Davison |
| SIGNATURE | DAVISON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of San Francisco |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Non-finite complements and modality in de-na ‘allow’ in Hindi-Urdu
The Cornell Lectures: Women in the Linguistics Profession
U In June 1989, a two-day conference on women in linguistics was held at Cornell University. This volume, a collection of the papers given at that conference, transmits the energy, openness, struggles, yet hope of the conference and its participants. The contributors, both female and male, have a variety of research interests and positions in academe. The papers focus on the problems and complexities faced by women and others who do not fit the m…
Linguistic Complexity and Text Comprehension: Readability Issues Reconsidered
Standard readability formulas are widely accepted as reliable means of determining text difficulty for readers. This book examines the shortcomings of these formulas, both for professionals who try to use these formulas to match texts with readers and for others who study how language is understood. Language comprehension experts in cognitive psychology, education, and linguistics present alternative viewpoints concerning the issue of effective r…
Operator binding, gaps, and pronouns
Problems of Seem/Scheinen Constructions
The Talking Cure: Essays in Psychoanalysis and Language
This book addresses itself to the problem of understanding the relations between psychoanalysis and language not only in terms of contemporary linguistic and philosophical conceptions of language but also in relation to the wider field of the human sciences
Syntactic Markedness and the Definition of Sentence Topic
SYNTACTIC MARKEDNESS AND THE DEFINITION OF SENTENCE TOPIC Alice Davison University ofIllinois Sentence topics are linguistic constituents, with syntactic and semantic properties which single them out for a linking function in the process of relating a sentence to its discourse context. This paper explores the relation between the linguistic properties of sentence topics and their use as discourse links in sentence processing. It proposes a set of…
Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics
Reflections on the English Progressive
On the Failure of Readability Formulas to Define Readable Texts: A Case Study from Adaptations
IN THE PAST 30 OR 40 YEARS there has been much discussion of objective formulas to measure the readability of texts. These formulas measure variables such as sentence length and familiarity of vocabulary, but do not define the actual features of texts which make them easy or hard to read. In this study, we compared two versions of four texts, the original versions intended mainly for adult readers, and the adapted versions intended for less skill…
On the form and meaning of Hindi passive sentences
Peculiar Passives
Passive sentences often have different meanings and communicative intent from the corresponding active sentences. It is proposed that the ‘extra’ attitudinal and modal meanings of passive sentences are derived by Gricean conversational implicature. It is therefore possible to state the relation between active and passive sentences in syntactic terms without reference to meaning. Implicatures are more likely to be associated with passive sentences…
On the semantics of speech acts
Syntactic Markedness and the Definition of Sentence Topic
SYNTACTIC MARKEDNESS AND THE DEFINITION OF SENTENCE TOPIC Alice Davison University ofIllinois Sentence topics are linguistic constituents, with syntactic and semantic properties which single them out for a linking function in the process of relating a sentence to its discourse context. This paper explores the relation between the linguistic properties of sentence topics and their use as discourse links in sentence processing. It proposes a set of…
On the Failure of Readability Formulas to Define Readable Texts: A Case Study from Adaptations
IN THE PAST 30 OR 40 YEARS there has been much discussion of objective formulas to measure the readability of texts. These formulas measure variables such as sentence length and familiarity of vocabulary, but do not define the actual features of texts which make them easy or hard to read. In this study, we compared two versions of four texts, the original versions intended mainly for adult readers, and the adapted versions intended for less skill…
Peculiar Passives
Passive sentences often have different meanings and communicative intent from the corresponding active sentences. It is proposed that the ‘extra’ attitudinal and modal meanings of passive sentences are derived by Gricean conversational implicature. It is therefore possible to state the relation between active and passive sentences in syntactic terms without reference to meaning. Implicatures are more likely to be associated with passive sentences…
Non-finite complements and modality in de-na ‘allow’ in Hindi-Urdu
Operator binding, gaps, and pronouns
On the form and meaning of Hindi passive sentences
On the semantics of speech acts
On the semantics of speech acts
Peculiar Passives
Passive sentences often have different meanings and communicative intent from the corresponding active sentences. It is proposed that the ‘extra’ attitudinal and modal meanings of passive sentences are derived by Gricean conversational implicature. It is therefore possible to state the relation between active and passive sentences in syntactic terms without reference to meaning. Implicatures are more likely to be associated with passive sentences…
Explorations in Semantics and Pragmatics
Reflections on the English Progressive
On the Failure of Readability Formulas to Define Readable Texts: A Case Study from Adaptations
IN THE PAST 30 OR 40 YEARS there has been much discussion of objective formulas to measure the readability of texts. These formulas measure variables such as sentence length and familiarity of vocabulary, but do not define the actual features of texts which make them easy or hard to read. In this study, we compared two versions of four texts, the original versions intended mainly for adult readers, and the adapted versions intended for less skill…
On the form and meaning of Hindi passive sentences
Problems of Seem/Scheinen Constructions
The Talking Cure: Essays in Psychoanalysis and Language
This book addresses itself to the problem of understanding the relations between psychoanalysis and language not only in terms of contemporary linguistic and philosophical conceptions of language but also in relation to the wider field of the human sciences
Syntactic Markedness and the Definition of Sentence Topic
SYNTACTIC MARKEDNESS AND THE DEFINITION OF SENTENCE TOPIC Alice Davison University ofIllinois Sentence topics are linguistic constituents, with syntactic and semantic properties which single them out for a linking function in the process of relating a sentence to its discourse context. This paper explores the relation between the linguistic properties of sentence topics and their use as discourse links in sentence processing. It proposes a set of…
Operator binding, gaps, and pronouns
Linguistic Complexity and Text Comprehension: Readability Issues Reconsidered
Standard readability formulas are widely accepted as reliable means of determining text difficulty for readers. This book examines the shortcomings of these formulas, both for professionals who try to use these formulas to match texts with readers and for others who study how language is understood. Language comprehension experts in cognitive psychology, education, and linguistics present alternative viewpoints concerning the issue of effective r…
The Cornell Lectures: Women in the Linguistics Profession
U In June 1989, a two-day conference on women in linguistics was held at Cornell University. This volume, a collection of the papers given at that conference, transmits the energy, openness, struggles, yet hope of the conference and its participants. The contributors, both female and male, have a variety of research interests and positions in academe. The papers focus on the problems and complexities faced by women and others who do not fit the m…
Non-finite complements and modality in de-na ‘allow’ in Hindi-Urdu
Linguistics (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · History (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (3 works) · Meaning (existential (2 works)