Betty J. Birner is an American linguist. Her research focuses on pragmatics and discourse analysis , particularly the identification of the types of contexts appropriate for sentences with marked word order.
20-440: Birner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Betty Birner , American linguist Michal Birner (born 1986), Czech ice hockey player Stanislav Birner (born 1956), Czech tennis player Dr. N. Birner, pen name of Austrian writer and journalist Nathan Birnbaum See also [ edit ] Berner [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
40-571: A Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science in the English department at Northern Illinois University . She has also served as an instructor at the 2007 LSA Summer Institute at Stanford University. In addition to scholarly monographs and journal articles, in the 1990s she wrote and edited a series of brochures for the Linguistic Society of America that explained for the general public such topics as Bilingualism, Is English Changing? and Does
60-526: A book of this size), beautifully designed, well proofread, and enjoyable to handle'; 'superbly produced and designed'; 'one of the most superb works of academic scholarship ever to appear on the English linguistics scene ... a monumental work that offers easily the most comprehensive and thought-provoking treatment of English grammar to date. Nothing rivals this work, with respect to breadth, depth and consistency of coverage'. I fully agree with these sentiments. Huddleston, Pullum, and collaborators definitely deserve
80-712: A prize for this achievement. That same year, the book won the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award of the Linguistic Society of America . Huddleston's grammatical frameworks, such as that in the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language , have been monotonic phrase-structure grammars , similar to X-bar theory but with explicit notation for syntactic functions such as subject, modifier, and complement. Monotonic phrase-structure grammars are based on
100-612: A project under Halliday in the Communications Research Centre at The University of London called the “OSTI Programme in the Linguistic Properties of Scientific English.” (OSTI was the UK government 's Office for Scientific and Technical Information.) As a student of Halliday's, Huddleston was a proponent of Systemic Functional Grammar , but as his thinking developed, he came to reject it. In 1988, Huddleston published
120-403: A very critical review of the 1985 book A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language . He wrote: [T]here are some respects in which it is seriously flawed and disappointing. A number of quite basic categories and concepts do not seem to have been thought through with sufficient care; this results in a remarkable amount of unclarity and inconsistency in the analysis, and in the organization of
140-460: Is a British linguist and grammarian specializing in the study and description of English. Huddleston is the primary author of The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language ( ISBN 0-521-43146-8 ), which presents a comprehensive descriptive grammar of English. Huddleston was born in Cheshire , England, and attended Manchester Grammar School . Upon leaving school, he spent two years in
160-414: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Betty Birner She has been part of a movement to expand the field's understanding of how information structure (one's familiarity with the referents being discussed) affects the interpretations of sentences with different word orders, especially in English utterances with constituent inversion. Inversion is the term for sentence types where
180-404: Is the absence of transformations or movement operations in the former. Monotonic grammars maintain that the structure of a sentence remains fixed from its initial formation, whereas generative grammars propose that sentences can undergo various transformations during the derivation process. He believes that some kind of fusion of functions accounts for noun phrases that lack noun heads. In 1999,
200-437: Is the social side of these events that lingers in the memory long after the details of linguistic discussion are forgotten. We remember particularly dawn jogs to Alexandra Beach from Rodney’s house at Sunshine Beach, pool volleyball and table tennis games fought with great ferocity, and walks through Noosa National Park with spectacular sunsets over Noosa Bay. Geoff Pullum joined the project in 1995, after Huddleston "bemoaned
220-639: The University of Edinburgh , University College London , and the University of Reading . In 1969, he moved to the University of Queensland, where he remained for the rest of his career. He was the recipient of the first round of 'Excellence in Teaching' awards at the University of Queensland in 1988. In 1990, he was awarded a Personal Chair. He is currently an emeritus professor at the University of Queensland , where he taught until 1997. For some time, Huddleston ran
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260-1172: The Distribution of Inferrable Information in English.” In B. Shaer, P. Cook, and W. Frey, eds. Dislocation: Syntactic, Semantic, and Discourse Perspectives . Routledge. Birner, Betty J., Jeffrey P. Kaplan, and Gregory Ward. 2007. Functional compositionality and the interaction of discourse constraints. Language 83.2: 317–343. Birner, Betty J. and Gregory Ward, eds. 2006. Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean Studies in Pragmatics and Semantics in Honor of Laurence R. Horn. [Studies in Language Companion Series, Volume 80.] Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum , in collaboration with Laurie Bauer , Betty J. Birner, Ted Briscoe, Peter Collins, David Denison , David Lee, Anita Mittwoch, Geoffrey Nunberg , Frank Palmer , John Payne, Peter Peterson, Lesley Stirling, and Gregory Ward . 2002. The Cambridge Grammar of
280-673: The English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Birner, Betty J. and Gregory Ward. 1998. Information Status and Noncanonical Word Order in English. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Birner, Betty J. 1996. The discourse function of inversion in English. Birner, Betty J. 1995. "Pragmatic constraints on the verb in English inversion“ Lingua . Birner, Betty J. 1994. "Information status and word order: An analysis of English inversion." Language. Gregory Ward and Birner, Betty J. 1993. "The semantics and pragmatics of 'and everything'," Journal of Pragmatics . Rodney Huddleston Rodney D. Huddleston (born 4 April 1937)
300-607: The grammar. A year later, he decided that he would have to produce a grammar that did a better job. He was awarded a special projects grant by The University of Queensland to the project and began work on what was provisionally titled The Cambridge Grammar of English . From 1989 to 1995, workshops were held two or three times a year in Brisbane and Sydney to develop ideas for the framework and content. Intellectually, these were intense and exhausting sessions but they were associated with extremely enjoyable social gatherings. In some ways it
320-523: The idea that the structure of sentences can be represented as a hierarchy of constituents, with each level of the hierarchy corresponding to a different level of grammatical organization. X-bar theory is a specific type of phrase-structure grammar that posits a uniform structure for all phrasal categories, with each phrase containing a "head" and optional specifier and/or complement. The key difference between monotonic phrase-structure grammars and generative grammars like transformational-generative grammar (TGG)
340-685: The language I speak influence the way I think? The volume Cambridge Grammar of the English Language to which she contributed was the winner of the 2004 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award from the Linguistic Society of America . Birner, Betty J. 2017. Language and Meaning. Abingdon: Routledge. Birner, Betty. J. 2012. Introduction to pragmatics. John Wiley & Sons. Gregory Ward and Betty J. Birner. “Discourse Effects of Word Order Variation.” In K. von Heusinger, C. Maienborn, and P. Portner, eds., Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning . Berlin/Boston: Mouton de Gruyter, 2011. Vol. 2. Birner, Betty J. 2009. “Noncanonical Word Order and
360-537: The military completing National Service before enrolling at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge , with a scholarship, where he graduated in 1960 with a First Class Honours degree in Modern and Medieval Languages. After graduating from Cambridge, Huddleston earned his PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh in 1963 under the supervision of Michael Halliday . Huddleston held lectureships at
380-470: The parts before and after the verb switch places. For example, (a) sentences below appear in regular, or canonical, English word order, while the (b) sentences show inversion: Birner received a PhD in linguistics from Northwestern University in 1992. She worked for two years in a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania ’s Institute for Research in Cognitive Science. She is currently
400-437: The problems he was having in maintaining the momentum of this huge project, at that time already five years underway". The book was published in 2002. In 2004, Peter Culicover wrote: The Cambridge grammar of the English language ( CGEL ) is a monumentally impressive piece of work. Already published reviews of this work do not overstate its virtues: 'a notable achievement'; 'authoritative, interesting, reasonably priced (for
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