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Name:	Betty  J. Birner
Institution:	Northern Illinois University
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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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