This book surveys the two main indigenous languages of Japan, Japanese and Ainu. No
genetic relationship has been established between them, and structurally they differ …

This is the first full study of how people refer to entities in natural discourse. It contributes to
the understanding of both linguistic diversity and the cognitive underpinnings of language …

Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the received wisdom is
that'pragmatics' simply cannot be coherently defined. In this groundbreaking book Mira Ariel …

In previous work on the grammar of spoken French (Lambrecht, 1984a and 1987) I have
tried to establish two fundamental facts concerning the reнlationship between syntax and …

This paper has three aims:(1) to generalize a computational account of the discourse
process called {\sc centering},(2) to apply this account to discourse processing in Japanese …

This book summarizes the last decade of my journey exploring interdisciplinary approaches
to the study of language and interaction. The core of this work was developed as my Ph. D …

This book has been a long time coming. Its core can be found in my 1984 UC Berkeley
dissertation, but my views on many of the issues treated in that earlier version have evolved …

While the notion of the grammaticization of topics into subjects has been widely alluded to in
the literature, detailed examination of the process in progress has been lacking (Li and …

ELLIPSIS AND WA-MARKING IN JAPANESE CONVERSATION Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4
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1.1 Corpus and methodology 1.2 Argument ellipsis 1.2. 1 Taxonomy of argument
ellipsis 1.2. 2 Location of referent in relation to its ellipsis 1.2. 3 Statistical aspects …