@unpublished {7754, title = {Non-assertive speech acts and their QUDs}, year = {2025}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa and Riester, Arndt} } @inbook {7377, title = {Contrast in a QUD-based information-structure model}, booktitle = {On the place of contrast in information structure: definition, types, encoding and annotation. }, number = {Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]}, year = {2024}, pages = {191-224}, publisher = {De Gruyter Mouton}, organization = {De Gruyter Mouton}, edition = {Jorina Brysbaert \& Karen Lahousse }, chapter = {8}, address = {Berlin, Boston}, abstract = {

In this paper I look at contrast within the model of information-structure annotation proposed by Riester, Brunetti, and De Kuthy (2018), Riester (2019), Brunetti, De Kuthy, and Riester (2021), which is based on the notion of \“Question under Discussion\” or QUD (Roberts [1996] 2012, among many others). The model assumes that every utterance in a discourse is preceded by an implicit question, and proposes four principles that constrain the formulation of such questions. One principle, \“Parallelism\”, accounts for two or more utterances answering the same QUD. Such a discourse configuration provides the ground for contrast (Umbach 2004, 2005; Repp 2016); specifically, what is called \“Simple\” Parallelism accounts for occurrences of contrastive focus, while \“Complex\” Parallelism is relevant when two alternative sets are evoked, namely with contrastive topics. I assume that contrast is accounted for in terms of contrastive discourse relations and make the working hypothesis that contrastive relations always co-occur with Parallelism. Partially following Repp (2016), I assume four contrastive relations, specifically: similar, oppose, corr(rection) and concession; and describe what contextual and semantic restrictions make these relations different. By analyzing naturalistic data from spoken and written interviews in Italian and French, whose utterances were annotated for their QUDs and information structure and for their contrastive relations, I show how the differences among these relations can be partially accounted for in terms of their QUD structure. I also look at the interplay between contrastive relations and Simple and Complex Parallelism. I eventually show and discuss cases where contrastive relations and Parallelism do not co-occur. This mostly happens when a concession relation holds between the discourse segments.

}, doi = {doi.org/10.1515/9783110986594-008}, url = {https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110986594-008/html}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa} } @inproceedings {7664, title = {Diff{\'e}rences fonctionnelles entre quasi-synonymes: les interrogatives de raison en fran{\c c}ais}, year = {2024}, keywords = {experimental linguistics, interrogatives, reason questions}, author = {Thiberge, Gabriel and Brunetti, Lisa and Flliessbach, Jan} } @mastersthesis {7734, title = {Information structure in Romance: from sentence to discourse}, volume = {HDR in LInguistics}, year = {2024}, month = {09/07/2024}, type = {habilitation {\`a} diriger des recherches}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa} } @conference {7755, title = {Information Structure in Romance: from sentence to discourse}, year = {2024}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa} } @inbook {7795, title = {Introduction to RLLT23, selected papers from LSRL53 in Paris }, booktitle = {RLLT23, selected papers from LSRL53 in Paris - Special Issue of Isogloss, Open Journal of Romance Linguistics}, volume = {10(7)}, year = {2024}, pages = {1-7}, chapter = {1}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.540}, url = {https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/v10-n1-brunetti-chitoran-mardale/540-pdf-en}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa and Chitoran, Ioana and Mardale, Alexandru} } @article {7376, title = {On the overlapping discourse functions of Spanish {\textquoteright}c{\'o}mo que{\textquoteright} and French {\textquoteright}comment {\c c}a{\textquoteright} interrogatives}, journal = {Open Linguistics}, year = {2024}, abstract = {

We present evidence for an overlap in the discourse functions of Spanish\ c\ómo que XP\ \‘how thatcomplementizer\’ and French\ comment \ça\ \∅/XP \‘how thatdemonstrative\’ interrogatives. In a corpus of examples from interviews and film scripts,\ we find three shared discourse functions: clarification requests, mirative questions, and expressions of disagreement. We model the relative importance of different cues for the attribution of these functions.\ At the construction level, the presence of a shift in grammatical person from the previous turn and the presence of linguistic material (the \“remnant\”) after \‘how that\’ are significant factors. At the turn level, whether and how the speaker continues her turn after the interrogative replaces person-shift as significant predictor. Moreover, the difference in text genre has a significant effect, whereas language does not. We further illustrate possible prosodic cues for the three functions. We conclude that the Spanish and the French constructionhave overlapping discourse functions, and that morpho-syntactic, contextual, and prosodic factors need to be taken into account to distinguish between them.

}, author = {Fliessbach, Jan and Brunetti, Lisa and Hiyon Yoo} } @book {7794, title = {RLLT23, Selected papers from LSRL 53, Paris}, series = {Special Issue of Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics }, volume = {10(7)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/issue/view/v10-n7}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa and Chitoran, Ioana and Mardale, Alexandru} } @conference {7374, title = {French evaluative adjectives: position and interpretation}, year = {2022}, month = {10/2022}, address = {Paris, France}, url = {https://le-2022.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/book_le_2022_en.pdf}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa and Thiberge, Gabriel} } @article {6558, title = {French questions alternating between a reason and a manner interpretation}, journal = {Linguistic Vanguard}, volume = {8}, year = {2022}, month = {01/2022}, pages = {227-237}, type = { }, author = {Brunetti, Lisa and Lucia M. Tovena and Hiyon Yoo} } @inbook {6659, title = {French reason-comment (how) questions: a view from prosody}, booktitle = {Functional categories and expressive meaning}, year = {2021}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, chapter = {12}, abstract = {

This paper discusses some semantic/pragmatic aspects of French questions starting with comment \’how\’ and having an interpretation of reason (similar to reason \’why\’), and investigates if and how these properties are reflected by prosody. With reason-comment questions, the speaker doubts about the possibility of the event described by the question to take or have taken place and asks the hearer to help her revise her expectations about it, by giving her some reasons for its existence. The speaker\’s doubt is often accompanied by additional emotions, such as indignation, exasperation, etc. In order to analyze the prosody of these questions, we conducted a production experiment comparing the reason and the manner reading of comment-questions. Results confirmed that prosodic cues allow distinguishing the two interpretations. In utterances with reason reading, the expression of questioning force is important, though accompanied by expressions of expectation disconfirmation and surprise.

}, isbn = {9780198871217}, url = {https://global.oup.com/academic/product/expressive-meaning-across-linguistic-levels-and-frameworks-9780198871217?cc=de\&lang=en\&$\#$}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa and Hiyon Yoo and Lucia M. Tovena and Rachel Albar} } @article {6799, title = {The information-structural status of adjuncts: A QUD-based approach}, journal = {Discours }, volume = {28}, year = {2021}, month = {13 octobre 2021}, type = {en ligne : http://journals.openedition.org/discours/11454 }, abstract = {

In this paper we present an analysis of the information structural properties\ of different types of verb and sentence modifying adjuncts under a QUD\ approach. Our study is based on naturalistic data from English, German,\ and French containing adjuncts such as temporal, spatial, or manner prepositional\ phrases, as well as different types of adverbial clauses. The analyses\ relies on Riester et al. (2018)\’s approach, which identifies the (generally\ implicit, sometimes overt) Question Under Discussion preceding each utterance\ of a text through explicit pragmatic principles, and derives from it\ the information structure of the utterance. The analysis of adjuncts\ within this approach shows that in certain contexts, though conveying\ new information, adjuncts do not answer the QUD that is answered by the\ sentence they syntactically depend on. We argue that these adjuncts answer\ a different QUD and behave as independent discourse units. As such, they\ have an information structure of their own and are in a rhetorical relation\ with their host clause. Our analysis sheds light on the similarities\ between adjuncts and Potts (2005)\&$\#$39;s supplements: both can be accounted\ for as independent discourse units; however, while supplements display\ projective behavior, adjuncts do not. Following Venhuizen et al. (2014),\ we ascribe this difference to their different semantic anchor (nominal\ vs verbal). Our work therefore highlights a different way for an expression\ to be independent at a discourse level, other than being projective content.

}, keywords = {annotation, discourse structure, information structure, question under discussion}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa and De Kuthy, Kordula and Riester, Arndt} } @article {6738, title = {Bridging Strength, Monotonicity, and Word Order Choices in Catalan}, journal = {Discourse Processes}, year = {2020}, month = {16 Jun 2020}, pages = {703-724 }, abstract = {

Three experimental studies are presented testing the choice of a left or a right dislocation in Catalan, depending on the bridging relation between the dislocate and its antecedent. We make the hypothesis that the stronger the anaphoric link between the dislocate and its antecedent, the more appropriate a right dislocation is, whereas the opposite is true for left dislocation. The results of two acceptability judgment experiments partially support our hypothesis: Ratings with right dislocation decrease proportionally to the strength of the anaphoric link; however, it is ratings of canonical sentences (without dislocation at all), rather than of left dislocation, that display the opposite direction. For left dislocation, the picture is more complex and reflects the pragmatic function of this construction as a topic shifter or marker of contrast. A third experiment tests the monotonicity hypothesis, according to which a left dislocation is chosen when the anaphoric relation with the antecedent is either downward monotonic or nonmonotonic, whereas a right dislocation is preferred with an upward monotonic relation. The results partially support such a hypothesis but also further support the importance of taking the pragmatic function of left dislocation into account to explain its choice in discourse by speakers.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2020.1768623}, url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0163853X.2020.1768623?scroll=top\&needAccess=true}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa and Mayol, Laia and Villalba, Xavier} } @unpublished {6255, title = {A QUD-based analysis of non-at-issue expressions in naturalistic data}, year = {2020}, abstract = {

A new definition of non-at-issue (NAI) material in terms of optional information is proposed, which is based on an explicit method of reconstructing the Question Under Discussion and the information structure of utterances in naturalistic data (Riester et al 2018).\ According to this definition, verb and sentence modifiers share important properties with NAI material. We therefore argue that these expressions may represent NAI material, and apply classic diagnostics for non-at-issueness to them. We further show that such expressions are only \‘part-time\’ NAI triggers, namely, unlike supplements or other well-known NAI content, their NAI status varies depending on the context. We focus in particular on temporal and locative modifiers and on conditional clauses in order to show such a property. We finally discuss the position and status of NAI expressions in the QUD tree, showing that such expressions may, but are not always allowed to, have a place in that tree.\ 

}, keywords = {annotation, conventional implicatures., discourse structure, information structure, naturalistic data, non-at-issue, questions under discussion}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa and De Kuthy, Kordula and Riester, Arndt} } @inproceedings {6560, title = {Annotating Information Structure in Italian: Characteristics and Cross-Linguistics Applicability of a QUD-Based Approach}, year = {2019}, url = {https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XIII-2019/pdf/W19-4014.pdf}, author = {De Kuthy, Kordula and Brunetti, Lisa and Berardi, Marta} } @conference {6556, title = {Prosodic cues for expressivity and questioning force in a French reason question}, year = {2019}, address = {Constance, Allemagne}, author = {Rachel Albar and Brunetti, Lisa and Lucia M. Tovena and Hiyon Yoo} } @conference {6559, title = {The semantics and prosody of French comment questions with reason interpretation: expectation disconfirmation and surprise effects}, year = {2019}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa and Lucia M. Tovena and Hiyon Yoo} } @inbook {4790, title = {Annotation Guidelines for Questions under Discussion and Information Structure}, booktitle = {Information structure in lesser-described languages: Studies in prosody and syntax}, volume = {1}, number = {Studies in Language Companion Series}, year = {2018}, pages = {403-443}, publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Company}, organization = {John Benjamins Publishing Company}, edition = {John Benjamins}, chapter = {14}, keywords = {annotation, information structure, naturalistic data, questions under discussion}, isbn = {9789027201102}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.199.14rie}, author = {Riester, Arndt and Brunetti, Lisa and De Kuthy, Kordula} } @unpublished {5811, title = {Discourse properties of French clitic left dislocated NPs and their effect on prosody}, year = {2017}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa and Mathieu Avanzi} } @conference {5810, title = {Principles of information-structure and discourse-structure analysis}, year = {2017}, address = {Saarbruecken, Allemagne}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa and De Kuthy, Kordula and Riester, Arndt} } @conference {5809, title = {A QUD-based analysis of Non-At-Issue material in corpus data}, year = {2017}, address = {Oslo}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa and De Kuthy, Kordula and Riester, Arndt} } @conference {5813, title = {Annotation Guidelines for Questions under Discussion and Information Structure}, year = {2016}, address = {Barcelone}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa and De Kuthy, Kordula and Riester, Arndt} } @conference {5812, title = {Left and right dislocation across bridging types}, year = {2016}, address = {Frankfurt am Main, Allemagne}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa and Mayol, Laia and Villalba, Xavier} } @inproceedings {1416, title = {Entre syntaxe, prosodie et discours : les topiques sujets en fran{\c c}ais parl{\'e}}, volume = {SHS Web of Conferences}, year = {2012}, month = {2012}, pages = {2041-2054}, publisher = {SHS Web of Conferences}, edition = {Franck Neveu, Valelia Muni Toke, Peter Blumenthal, Thomas Klingler, Pierluigi Ligas, Sophie Pr{\'e}vost et Sandra Teston-Bonnard}, address = {Lyon}, isbn = {978-88-7438-072-5}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20120100209}, url = {http://www.shs-conferences.org/index.php?option=com_toc\&url=/articles/shsconf/abs/2012/01/contents/contents.html}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa and Mathieu Avanzi and Gendrot, C{\'e}dric} } @inproceedings {1417, title = {Extra-Sentential Elements, Prosodic Restructuring, and Information Structure. A Study of Clitic-Left Dislocation in Spontaneous French}, year = {2012}, isbn = {ISBN 978-7-5608-4869-3}, url = {http://sprosig.isle.illinois.edu/sp2012/uploadfiles/file/sp2012_submission_76.pdf}, author = {Mathieu Avanzi and Brunetti, Lisa and Gendrot, C{\'e}dric} } @inbook {1409, title = {A multilingual annotated corpus for the study of Information Structure}, booktitle = {Grammatik und Korpora 2009. Dritte internationale Konferenz, Mannheim, 22. - 24.09.2009. Grammar \& corpora 2009}, volume = {1}, number = {Korpuslinguistik und interdisziplin{\"a}re Perspektiven auf Sprache (1)}, year = {2011}, month = {2011}, pages = {305-328}, publisher = {Gunter Narr Verlag}, organization = {Gunter Narr Verlag}, edition = {Konopka, M., Kubczak, J., Mair, C., Sticha, F. et Wassner, U.H.}, address = {Mannheim}, isbn = {978-3-8233-6648-5}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa and Bott, Stefan and Costa, Joan and Vallduv{\'\i}, Enric} } @article {4076, title = {Book review : L. L{\'o}pez A derivational syntax for information structure, Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 23, Oxford Univ. Press, 2009, pp. 293}, journal = {Journal of Linguistics}, year = {2010}, month = {2010}, type = {book review}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa} } @inbook {4074, title = {Interaction entre topicalisation, structure th{\'e}matique et discours dans les langues Romane}, booktitle = {Syntaxe, structure informationnelle et organisation du discours dans les langues romanes}, number = {Studia Romanica et Linguistica 33}, year = {2010}, pages = {9-27}, edition = {Peter Lang}, chapter = {Interaction entre topicalisation, structure th{\'e}matique et discours dans les langues Romanes}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa} } @inproceedings {1408, title = {On the prosodic marking of contrast in Romance sentence topic~: evidence from Neapolitan Italian}, volume = {On-line conference proceedings}, year = {2010}, month = {2010}, address = {Chicago}, url = {http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/program.php}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa and D{\textquoteright}Imperio, Mariapaola and Cangemi, Francesco} } @inbook {1407, title = {Discourse Functions of Fronted Foci in Italian and Spanish}, booktitle = {Focus and Background in Romance Languages}, number = {Studies in Language Companion Series 112}, year = {2009}, pages = {43-82}, publisher = {John Benjamins}, organization = {John Benjamins}, edition = {A. Dufter and D. Jacob}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa} } @article {1406, title = {On links and tails in Italian}, journal = {Lingua}, volume = {119}, year = {2009}, pages = {756-781}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa} } @article {1405, title = {On the semantic and contextual factors that determine topic selection in Italian and Spanish}, journal = {The Linguistic Review}, volume = {26}, year = {2009}, pages = {261-289}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa} } @inproceedings {4075, title = {Italian background: links, tails, and contrast effects}, year = {2006}, month = {2006}, pages = {45-52}, edition = {http://www.nytud.hu/lola9/proceedings.html}, address = {Beseny{\H o}telek, Hungary}, url = {http://www.nytud.hu/lola9/proceedings.html}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa} } @inproceedings {4077, title = {On the pragmatics of post-focal material in Italian (left peripheral focus looked at from the other side)}, year = {2006}, month = {2009}, pages = {151-162}, publisher = {Peter Lang}, edition = {Peter Lang}, address = {Nancy}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa} } @book {1404, title = {A Unification of Focus}, year = {2004}, pages = {157}, publisher = {Unipress}, organization = {Unipress}, address = {Padova}, author = {Brunetti, Lisa} }