Papers and books/chapters that we will use will be listed here. If these are readings you’re being asked to do, they can be left outside my office (621 Commonwealth Ave., outside room 105) for you to borrow, photocopy, and return in a timely manner. See also the Readings page.

Readings mentioned in the syllabus:

Beaver, D., B. Clark, E. Flemming, T.F. Jaeger, M. Wolters (2007). When semantics meet phonetics: Acoustical studies of second-occurrence focus. Language 83(2):245-276.

Büring, D. (2003). On D-trees, beans, and B-accents. Linguistics & Philosophy 26:511-545.

Büring, D. (2008). Been there, marked that: A theory of second occurrence focus. Ms., UCLA. Posted on semanticsarchive.net.

Den Dikken, M. & A. Giannakidou (2002). From Hell to polarity: “Aggressively non-D-linked” wh-phrases as polarity itemrs. Linguistic Inquiry 33(1):31-61.

Chafe, W. (1976). Givenness, contrastiveness, definiteness, subjects, topics and point of view. In C. Li (ed.), Subject and Topic. New York: Academic Press. pp. 27-55.

Fox, D. (1999). Focus, parallelism, and accommodation. Proceedings of SALT 9.

Ghomeshi, J., R. Jackendoff, N. Rosen, and K. Russell (2004). Contrastive focus reduplication in English (the SALAD-salad paper). Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 22:307-357.

Göbbel, E. (1999). Focus in double object constructions. Linguistics 43(2): 237– 274.

Gundel, J., N. Hedberg, and R. Zacharski (1993). Cognitive status and the form of referring expressions in discourse. Language 69(2):274-307.

Gundel, J. (1999). On different kinds of focus. In P. Bosch & R. A. van der Sandt (eds.), Focus: Linguistic, cognitive and computational perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 293-305.

Gussenhoven, C. (2008). Types of focus in English. In C. Lee, M. Gordon, and D. Büring (eds.), Topic and focus: Cross-linguistic perspectives on meaning and intonation. Dordrecht: Springer. pp. 83-100.

Hartmann, K., and M. Zimmermann (2006). Morphological focus marking in Gùrùntùm (West Chadic). In S. Ishihara, M. Schmitz, and A. Schwartz (eds.), Working Papers of the SFB632. Interdisciplinary Studies of Information Structure (ISIS) 5 Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam. pp. 61-105.

Hobbs, J. (1990). The Pierrehumbert-Hirschberg theory of intonational meaning made simple: Comments on Pierrehumbert and Hirschberg. In P. Cohen, J. Morgan, and M. Pollack (eds.), Intentions in communication. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp. 313-100.

Kim, S.-S. (2002). Intervention effects are focus effects. In N. Akatsuka, S. Strauss, and B. Comrie (eds.), Japanese/Korean Linguistics, volume 10. Stanford, CA: CSLI. pp. 615-628.

Krahmer, E., and M. Swerts (2008). Perceiving focus. In C. Lee, M. Gordon, and D. Büring (eds.), Topic and focus: Cross-linguistic perspectives on meaning and intonation. Dordrecht: Springer. pp. 121-137.

Pierrehumbert, J. and J. Hirschberg (1990). The meaning of intonational contours in the interpretation of discourse. In P. Cohen, J. Morgan, and M. Pollack (eds.), Intentions in communication. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp. 271-311.

Portner, P., and K. Yabushita (1998). Linguistics & Philosophy 21:117-157.

Rooth, Mats (1996). In S. Lappin (ed.), The handbook of contemporary semantic theory. Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 272-297.

Schwarzschild, R. (1999). GIVENness, AvoidF, and other constraints on the placement of accent. Natural Language Semantics 7:141-177.

Selkirk, E. (1996). Sentence prosody: Intonation, stress, and phrasing. In J. Goldsmith (Ed.), The handbook of phonological theory. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. pp. 550-569.

Szendrői (2006). Focus movement (with special reference to Hungarian). In M. Everaert, H. Van Riemsdijk, R. Goedemans, B. Hollebrandse (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Syntax, volume 2. pp. 272-337.

Thornton, R. (2002). Let’s change the subject: Focus movement in early grammar. Language Acquisition 10(3):229-271.

Vallduví, E. (1995). Structural properties of information packaging in Catalan. In K. É. Kiss (eds), Discourse configurational languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 122-152.

Vallduví, E. and M. Vilkuna (1998). On rheme and kontrast. In P. Culicover and L. McNally (eds.), The Limits of Syntax. Syntax and Semantics 29. New York: Academic Press. pp. 79-108.

Wagner, M. (2006). NPI-licensing and focus movement. In Effi Georgala and Jonathan Howell (eds.), Proceedings of SALT XV. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications.

Winkler, S. and E. Göbbel (2002). Focus, p-movement, and the nuclear-stress rule: a view from Germanic and Romance. Linguistics 40(6):1185-1242.

Zubizarreta, Maria Luisa (1998). Prosody, focus and word order. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.