Knud Lambrecht
Biographic Data
| ID | 742011 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Knud Lambrecht |
| GIVEN NAMES | Knud |
| FAMILY NAME | Lambrecht |
| SIGNATURE | LAMBRECHT K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 238 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Dislocation
Topic, French Style
Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1980), pp. 337-360
A framework for the analysis of cleft constructions
This paper proposes a framework for the analysis of cleft constructions across languages. It takes as its point of departure Jespersen's second (1937), non-derivational, analysis of it-cleft sentences, in which the matrix sequence it is and the relative pronoun or complementizer are analyzed as grammatical elements that do not enter into the semantic composition of the sentence. To account for the defining property of clefts, that is, the express…
When subjects behave like objects
This paper is concerned with the cross-linguistic expression of a universal information-structure category called the ‘thetic’ or ‘sentence-focus’ (SF) category. The SF category differs from the unmarked ‘predicate-focus’ (PF) or ‘categorical’ category by the absence of a topic-comment relation between the subject and the predicate and it differs from the marked ‘argument-focus’ (AF) category by the absence of a focus-presupposition relation betw…
Information Structure and Sentence Form
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Information 3. The mental representations of discourse referents 4. Pragmatic relations: topic 5. Pragmatic relations: focus 6. Conclusion Bibliography Index
Toward a Construction-Based Theory of Language Function
Through a detailed examination of a particular sentence type, we outline a formal model in which grammatical description includes the description of use conditions on form-meaning pairs. The sentence type at issue is an exclamative construction we refer to as Nominal Extraposition (NE). This construction, exemplified by the sentence It's AMAZING the DIFFERENCE, bears a superficial resemblance to Right Dislocation (RD). However, NE must be disting…
Information Structure and Sentence Form
Why do speakers of all languages use different grammatical structures under different communicative circumstances to express the same idea? Professor Lambrecht explores the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the linguistic and extra-linguistic context in which it is used. His analysis is based on the observation that the structure of a sentence reflects a speaker's assumption about the hearer's state of knowledge and conscious…
On Nominal Extraposition
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session Dedicated to the Contributions of Charles J. Fillmore (1994)
“What, me worry?” – ‘Mad Magazine Sentences’ Revisited
Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1990), pp. 215-228
There Was a Farmer Had a Dog
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1988), pp. 319-339
Aboutness as a Cognitive Category
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1987), pp. 366-381
Topic, Antitopic and Verb Agreement in Non-Standard French
The author describes and explains the syntactic and pragmatic properties of the nominal and pronominal elements in sentences of the types Ces Romains ils sont fous and Ils sont fous, ces Romains , which, in spite of their frequent occurrence, have so far received little attention among linguists and grammarians. He argues that far from having the marginal status of a linguistic anomaly, the cooccurrence in the same clause of coreferential nouns a…
Formulaicity, Frame Semantics, and Pragmatics in German Binomial Expressions
The analysis of formulaic German binomial expressions of the form N und N reveals the following characteristics. The absence of determiners, along with other morphosyntactic and semantic anomalies, makes these phrases non-compositional and thus similar to idioms; but they differ from fixed idiomatic expressions in that their structural pattern can be productively used for the creation of new pairs. These bare binomials are not exhaustively listab…
Information Structure and Sentence Form
Why do speakers of all languages use different grammatical structures under different communicative circumstances to express the same idea? Professor Lambrecht explores the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the linguistic and extra-linguistic context in which it is used. His analysis is based on the observation that the structure of a sentence reflects a speaker's assumption about the hearer's state of knowledge and conscious…
A framework for the analysis of cleft constructions
This paper proposes a framework for the analysis of cleft constructions across languages. It takes as its point of departure Jespersen's second (1937), non-derivational, analysis of it-cleft sentences, in which the matrix sequence it is and the relative pronoun or complementizer are analyzed as grammatical elements that do not enter into the semantic composition of the sentence. To account for the defining property of clefts, that is, the express…
Toward a Construction-Based Theory of Language Function
Through a detailed examination of a particular sentence type, we outline a formal model in which grammatical description includes the description of use conditions on form-meaning pairs. The sentence type at issue is an exclamative construction we refer to as Nominal Extraposition (NE). This construction, exemplified by the sentence It's AMAZING the DIFFERENCE, bears a superficial resemblance to Right Dislocation (RD). However, NE must be disting…
Formulaicity, Frame Semantics, and Pragmatics in German Binomial Expressions
The analysis of formulaic German binomial expressions of the form N und N reveals the following characteristics. The absence of determiners, along with other morphosyntactic and semantic anomalies, makes these phrases non-compositional and thus similar to idioms; but they differ from fixed idiomatic expressions in that their structural pattern can be productively used for the creation of new pairs. These bare binomials are not exhaustively listab…
Information Structure and Sentence Form
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Information 3. The mental representations of discourse referents 4. Pragmatic relations: topic 5. Pragmatic relations: focus 6. Conclusion Bibliography Index
Topic, Antitopic and Verb Agreement in Non-Standard French
The author describes and explains the syntactic and pragmatic properties of the nominal and pronominal elements in sentences of the types Ces Romains ils sont fous and Ils sont fous, ces Romains , which, in spite of their frequent occurrence, have so far received little attention among linguists and grammarians. He argues that far from having the marginal status of a linguistic anomaly, the cooccurrence in the same clause of coreferential nouns a…
Formulaicity, Frame Semantics, and Pragmatics in German Binomial Expressions
The analysis of formulaic German binomial expressions of the form N und N reveals the following characteristics. The absence of determiners, along with other morphosyntactic and semantic anomalies, makes these phrases non-compositional and thus similar to idioms; but they differ from fixed idiomatic expressions in that their structural pattern can be productively used for the creation of new pairs. These bare binomials are not exhaustively listab…
Aboutness as a Cognitive Category
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1987), pp. 366-381
There Was a Farmer Had a Dog
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1988), pp. 319-339
“What, me worry?” – ‘Mad Magazine Sentences’ Revisited
Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1990), pp. 215-228
Information Structure and Sentence Form
Why do speakers of all languages use different grammatical structures under different communicative circumstances to express the same idea? Professor Lambrecht explores the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the linguistic and extra-linguistic context in which it is used. His analysis is based on the observation that the structure of a sentence reflects a speaker's assumption about the hearer's state of knowledge and conscious…
On Nominal Extraposition
Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session Dedicated to the Contributions of Charles J. Fillmore (1994)
Toward a Construction-Based Theory of Language Function
Through a detailed examination of a particular sentence type, we outline a formal model in which grammatical description includes the description of use conditions on form-meaning pairs. The sentence type at issue is an exclamative construction we refer to as Nominal Extraposition (NE). This construction, exemplified by the sentence It's AMAZING the DIFFERENCE, bears a superficial resemblance to Right Dislocation (RD). However, NE must be disting…
Information Structure and Sentence Form
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Information 3. The mental representations of discourse referents 4. Pragmatic relations: topic 5. Pragmatic relations: focus 6. Conclusion Bibliography Index
When subjects behave like objects
This paper is concerned with the cross-linguistic expression of a universal information-structure category called the ‘thetic’ or ‘sentence-focus’ (SF) category. The SF category differs from the unmarked ‘predicate-focus’ (PF) or ‘categorical’ category by the absence of a topic-comment relation between the subject and the predicate and it differs from the marked ‘argument-focus’ (AF) category by the absence of a focus-presupposition relation betw…
A framework for the analysis of cleft constructions
This paper proposes a framework for the analysis of cleft constructions across languages. It takes as its point of departure Jespersen's second (1937), non-derivational, analysis of it-cleft sentences, in which the matrix sequence it is and the relative pronoun or complementizer are analyzed as grammatical elements that do not enter into the semantic composition of the sentence. To account for the defining property of clefts, that is, the express…
Topic, French Style
Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1980), pp. 337-360
Dislocation
Linguistics (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · History (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (3 works)