The discourse functions of Yiddish expletive es + subject-postposing

References

1. Aissen, J
   (1975) Presentational-THERE insertion: a cyclic root transformation. Papers from the 11th Regional Meeting , CLS.
   [Google Scholar]
2. Birnbaum, S
   (1979) Yiddish: a survey and a grammar.Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press.
   [Google Scholar]
3. Bolinger, D
   (1977) Meaning and form. London: Longman.
   [Google Scholar]
4. Clark, H. and Marshall, C
   (1981) Definite reference and mutual knowledge. In Joshi, A.K. , Webber, B.L. , and Sag, I.A. , eds.Elements of discourse understanding. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
   [Google Scholar]
5. Davison, A
   (1984) Syntactic markedness and the definition of sentence topic. Language60.797-846. doi: 10.1353/lan.1984.0012
   https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.1984.0012 [Google Scholar]
6. Erteschik-Shir, N. and Lappin, S
   (1979) Dominance and the functional explanation of island phenomena. Theoretical Linguistics44-86.
   [Google Scholar]
7. Green, G. and Morgan, J.L
   (1981) Pragmatics, grammar, and discourse. In Cole, P ., ed.Radical pragmatics. NY: Academic Press. Pp. 167-81.
   [Google Scholar]
8. Grosz, B
   (1977) Focusing in dialog. SRI International. Technical Note No. 151. July.
9. Grosz, B
   (1981) Focusing and description in natural language dialogues. In Joshi, A.K. , Webber, B.L. , and Sag, I.A. , eds.Elements of discourse understanding. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. Pp.84-105.
   [Google Scholar]
10. Grosz, B. , Joshi, A.K. , and Weinstein, S
    (1987) Toward a computational theory of discourse interpretation. Ms.
11. Gundel, J
    (1974) The role of topic and comment in linguistic theory. Univ. of TexasPh.D. diss.
    [Google Scholar]
12. Gundel, J
    (1985) 'Shared knowledge' and topicality. Journal of Pragmatics9.1.83-107. doi: 10.1016/0378‑2166(85)90049‑9
    https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-2166(85)90049-9 [Google Scholar]
13. Hankamer, J
    (1973) THERE-insertion and the definiteness of deletion targets. NELS4.
    [Google Scholar]
14. Henningsson, L.-A
    (1987) Existential sentences in Swedish, a question of perspective. Ms.
15. Horn, L
    (1986) Presupposition, theme, and variations. In Farley, A . et al. , eds.Papers from the 22nd Regional Meeting, CLS. Pp.168-92.
    [Google Scholar]
16. Joshi, A.K. and Weinstein, S
    (1981) Control of inference: role of some aspects of discourse structure-centering. Proc. IJCAI81.
    [Google Scholar]
17. Katz, D
    (1987) Grammar of the Yiddish language. London: Duckworth.
    [Google Scholar]
18. Kuno, S
    (1972) Functional sentence perspective: a case study from Japanese and English. Linguistic Inquiry3.269-320.
    [Google Scholar]
19. Kuno, S
    (1986) Functional syntax: anaphora, discourse, and empathy.Chicago: Chicago Univ. Press.
    [Google Scholar]
20. Mark, Y
    (1978) Gramatik fun der yidisher klal-shprakh. [Grammar of Standard Yiddish.] NY: Congress for Jewish Culture.
    [Google Scholar]
21. Olsvanger, I
    ed. (1947) Royte pomerantsen. [Red oranges.] NY: Schocken Books. Reprinted 1965.
    [Google Scholar]
22. Perlmutter, D. and Zaenen, A
    (1984) The indefinite extraposition construction in Dutch and German. In Perlmutter, D. and Rosen, C ., eds.Studies in relational grammar 2. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. Pp.171-216.
    [Google Scholar]
23. Platzack, C
    (1986) COMP, INFL, and Germanic word order. In Hellan, L. , and Christensen, K ., eds.Topics in Scandinavian syntax. Dordrecht: Foris.
    [Google Scholar]
24. Prince, E.F
    (1981) Toward a taxonomy of given/new information. In Cole, P ., ed.Radical pragmatics. NY: Academic Press. Pp.223–255.
    [Google Scholar]
25. Prince, E.F
    (1985) Fancy syntax and 'shared knowledge'. Journal of Pragmatics9.65-81. doi: 10.1016/0378‑2166(85)90048‑7
    https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-2166(85)90048-7 [Google Scholar]
26. Prince, E.F
    (1988) On pragmatic change: the borrowing of discourse functions. Journal of Pragmatics. doi: 10.1016/0378‑2166(88)90045‑8
    https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-2166(88)90045-8 [Google Scholar]
27. Prince, E.F
    . (To appear) The ZPG letter: subjects, definiteness, and information-status. In Thompson, S. and Mann, W eds. Discourse description: diverse analyses of a fund raising text. Amsterdam/Phila.: John Benjamins B.V. doi: 10.1075/pbns.16.12pri
    https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.16.12pri [Google Scholar]
28. Prince, E.F
    . (In prep.) Syntax, discourse, and the notion of 'Centering'.
29. Rando, E. and Napoli, D.J
    (1978) Definites in THERE-sentences. Language54.300-13. doi: 10.2307/412949
    https://doi.org/10.2307/412949 [Google Scholar]
30. Reinhart, T
    (1981) Pragmatics and linguistics: an analysis of sentence topics. Philosophica27.53-94. Also 1982. Indiana Univeristy Linguistics Club.
    [Google Scholar]
31. Schaechter, M
    (1986) Laytish mame-loshn. [Correct Yiddish.] NY: League for Yiddish.
    [Google Scholar]
32. Sidner, C
    (1983) Focusing in the comprehension of definite anaphora. In Brady, M. and Berwick, R ., eds.Computational models of discourse. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp.265-328.
    [Google Scholar]
33. Taube, M
    . (To appear) The development of aspectual auxiliaries in Yiddish. Word.
    [Google Scholar]
34. Ward, G
    (1985) The semantics and pragmatics of Preposing. Univ. of Penn. Ph.D. diss.
    [Google Scholar]
35. Weinreich, U
    (1971) College Yiddish. 5th revised edition. NY: YIVO.
    [Google Scholar]
36. Zaretski, A
    (1929) Yidishe gramatik. [Yiddish grammar.] Vilna: Vilner Farlag fun B. Kletskin.
    [Google Scholar]
37. Ziv, Y
    (1975) On the relevance of content to the form-function correlation: an examination of extraposed relative clauses. Parasession on Functionalism.CLS 11. Pp.568-79.
    [Google Scholar]
38. Ziv, Y
    (1981) On some discourse uses of existentials in English, or, Getting more mileage out of existentials in English. Presented at theLSA Annual Meeting, NY.
    [Google Scholar]