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| Name: | Betty J. Birner |
| Institution: | Northern Illinois University |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| Homepage: | http://www.engl.niu.edu/people_details.php?pid=38 |
| State and/or Country: |
IL USA |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Discourse Analysis Pragmatics |
| Specialty: | Pragmatics, Functions of Syntax |
| Selected Publications: |
Information Status and Noncanonical Word Order in English [with G. Ward];
The Discourse Function of Inversion in English [Garland]; Information structure. [with G. Ward and R. Huddleston, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language]; The Linguistic Realization of Inferrable Information [Language and Communication]; A Crosslinguistic Study of Postposing in Discourse [with G. Ward, Language & Speech]; Functional Constraints on Inversion in English and Farsi [with S. Mahootian, Lg Sciences]; Pragmatic Constraints on the Verb in English Inversion [Lingua]; Definiteness and the English Existential [with G. Ward, Language]; Information Status and Word Order: An Analysis of English Inversion [Language] Form and Function in English By-Phrase Passives [CLS] |
| Announced on LINGUIST : |
The Discourse Function of Inversion in English Information Status and Noncanonical Word Order In English Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning Introduction to Pragmatics |
| Reviewed on LINGUIST : |
Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning Information Status and Noncanonical Word Order In English Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning |
| Courses Taught: |
Intro to Linguistics, Semantics,
Discourse Analysis, Syntax and Morphology, Language and Prejudice, Pragmatics |
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