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Until recently, little attention has been paid within syntax to components of discourse meaning that go beyond information structure and fall into the domain of

This survey explores interactions between syntax and discourse, through a case study of patterns of extraction from coordinate structures. The theoretical bread

Discourse Syntax is the study of syntax that requires an understanding of the surrounding text and the overall discourse situation, including considerations of

In a greatly revised and extended version of his Ph.D. dissertation for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Avrutin (Yale U.) addresses several issues of

Constructions of Intersubjectivity shows that the meaning of grammatical constructions often has more to do with the human cognitive capacity for taking other p