Abstracts

Collected abstracts

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Individual abstracts can be found below.

Keynote speakers

• Karin AIJMER - The formal and functional variability of pragmatic markers in some types of English
  
  
• Laurel BRINTON - The recent rise of "saying" ECCs: (I'm) just saying, All I'm saying (is), What I'm saying (is)
  
  
• Bernd HEINE - On Extra Clausal Constituents: The case of imperatives

Accepted papers

• Carla BOUZADA-JABOIS & Javier PÉREZ-GUERRA - Towards a unified constructional characterization of the nonfinite periphery: On verbal absolutes and free adjuncts in English
  
  
• Lieselotte BREMS, Caroline GENTENS, Gilles JACOBS, Kristin DAVIDSE & An VAN LINDEN - Formal and semantic-discursive properties of mirative expressions (it's) no wonder: A synchronic-diachronic approach
  
  
• Kristin DAVIDSE & An VAN LINDEN - A diachronic approach to extraposition
  
  
• Anita FETZER - The janus-like nature of disjuncts in discourse
  
  
• Eugenio GORIA - Extra-clausal constituents in contact situations: A case study
  
  
• James GRIFFITHS - Two types of apposition
  
  
• Sylvie HANCIL - Final but and information structure
  
  
• Alexander HASELOW - Clause-final particles in spoken English
  
  
• Gunther KALTENBÖCK - On insubordination: Form, function and development of insubordinate if-clauses
  
  
• Evelien KEIZER - (DET) fact is (that) construction in English and Dutch: A Functional Discourse Grammar account
  
  
• Jong-Bok KIM - A constructional account of right-dislocation in English
  
  
• Chris KOOPS & Arne LOHMANN - Operationalizing the function of discourse markers via sequencing constaints: The case of English so
  
  
• Meta LINKS - The status of the first clause in Old English correlative constructions
  
  
• María José LÓPEZ-COUSO & Belén MÉNDEZ-NAYA - From clause to adverb: On the history of maybe and related forms
  
  
• Dennis OTT - Parenthesis and the boundaries of sentence grammar: Evidence from appositives
  
  
• David TIZÓN-COUTO - Left-dislocation Noun Phrases in Modern English: Discourse function and genre
  
  
• Gunnel TOTTIE - Uh, um and pragmatic particles: Overlapping functions and complementary distribution
  
  
• Aurelija USONIENĖ & Anna RUSKAN - On the semantic and functional variation of as-parentheticals in English and Lithuanian
  
  
• Martina WILTSCHKO & Johannes HEIM - The syntax of sentence-peripheral discourse markers: A neo-performative analysis
  
  
• Claudia WINKLE - Left and right dislocation across varieties of English

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