@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} } @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} } @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} } @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} } @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} }