none 10.1075/pbns.244.04rup John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 67307946 1457853 1420619 202412111237000037 10.1075 2024-12-11T13:13:49Z 2014-02-24T10:37:36Z 15 0922-842X 10.1075/pbns https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns Stacey Katz Bourns Harvard University https://ror.org/03vek6s52 Lindsy L. Myers University of Missouri, Kansas City Studies in honor of Knud Lambrecht In this tribute to Knud Lambrecht, a pioneer of Information Structure, a diverse group of scholars examines the intersection of syntax, discourse, pragmatics, and semantics. The six chapters in the first section of the volume consider issues of grammar with new theoretical and applied insights, pertaining to grammatical constructions such as left dislocation, unaccusatives, null complements, and passives. While the first half of the book presents studies involving a range of languages from Russian to Irish to Italian, the second section is dedicated to papers focused on French. These five chapters feature the application of Construction Grammar and/or Information Structure frameworks to prosody and second language processing, as well as to several distinctive spoken French constructions: clefts, left dislocations, and interrogatives. Collectively, this book offers substantial reading for those interested in the juncture of structure and context, notably a critical take on the important legacy of a preeminent linguist. 244 3 5 2014 2 21 2014 9789027256492 9789027270597 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/pbns.244 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027270597 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/pbns.244/html https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027270597.pdf Josef Ruppenhofer Laura A. Michaelis https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8391-2731 Despite the idiosyncratic properties of null-complement phenomena observed by Fillmore (1986), Lambrecht and Lemoine (2005), and others, many researchers have pursued large-scope, single-factor explanations of the distributional and interpretive restrictions on null complements – in particular, explanations based on Aktionsart (Rappaport Hovav and Levin 1998) and selectional restrictions (Resnik 1993, 1996). We argue instead for a limited implicational regularity tying the interpretation type of an omitted argument to the frame membership of its predicator. We show that our account is robust, that exceptions can be explained based on independently motivated principles, and that the proposed generalization can be motivated by reference to the discourse status of comparable overt arguments in both lexically and constructionally licensed omissions. Finally, we argue that successful generalizations in the realm of null complementation are likely to be narrow rather than broad in scope. 3 5 2014 2 21 2014 57 86 10.1075/pbns.244.04rup https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.244.04rup https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/pbns.244.04rup/html CLS Brisson 30 90 1994 “The Licensing of Unexpressed Objects in English Verbs.” Universals in Linguistic Theory Fillmore 1 1968 “The Case for Case.” Linguistics in the Morning Calm Fillmore 111 1982 “Frame Semantics.” Quaderni di Semantica Fillmore 6 222 1985 “Frames and the Semantics of Understanding.” 10.3765/bls.v12i0.1866 10.1007/s10988-012-9120-2 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199280445.003.0010 Constructions at Work Goldberg 2006 10.1353/lan.2001.0219 Studies in Lexical Relations Gruber 274 1965 “Referring Expressions in Discourse.” Syntax and Semantics Ioup 37 1975 “Some Universals of Quantifier Scope.” The Architecture of the Language Faculty Jackendoff 1997 10.1017/CBO9780511620607 Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics Lambrecht 145 1995 “The Pragmatics of Case.” 10.1075/cal.4.03lam 10.1075/pbns.155.04mic 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199280445.003.0011 The Projection of Arguments: Lexical and Compositional Factors Rappaport Hovav 97 1998 “Building Verb Meanings” Selection and Information: A Class-based Approach to Lexical Relationships Resnik 1993 10.1016/S0010-0277(96)00722-6 The Interaction of Valence and Information Structure Ruppenhofer 2004 Frame Net II: Extended Theory and Practice Ruppenhofer 2006 10.1075/cf.2.2.02rup “Unspecified Object Contexts with Activity and Change of State Verbs.” Wright 2000