Interactants depend on background knowledge and commonsense inferences to establish
and maintain intersubjectivity. This study investigates how the resources of language—or …

This conversation-analytic paper reports on the structure and interactional use of what I term
the 'do-construction'in English-language conversation: Utterances such as The kids do eat …

Abstract The Moldavian Chronicles of the 17th and 18th centuries are the first literary texts
written directly in Romanian. In these Early Modern Romanian (EMR) texts, declarative …

This paper offers a detailed analysis of the expression guarda te lit.'look you'in regional
Italian of Veneto. Firstly, we show that guarda te is a discourse marker that can have two …

On the one hand, this paper puts forward that the historical evolution of an n-word is
conditioned by the presence or absence of a syntactic formal feature [uNeg]. Particularly, it …

This paper deals with the Italian presuppositional negation marker mica. This particle can
surface differently in the negative circuit eg either in a clause-initial or a clause-internal …

By examining different features of turn design, this conversation-analytic dissertation
investigates a range of “account-able”“members' resources”(Garfinkel 1967) that are …

Responding to questions and assertions: embedded Polar Response Particles, ellipsis, and
contrast Page 1 University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst …

This article investigates the morpho‐syntactic marking of main polar questions, which is
achieved across Italo‐Romance by crosslinguistically different strategies. I argue that the …

This thesis deals with the diachronic renewal of standard negation, a phenomenon
commonly known as Jespersen's cycle (also JC in this thesis). We adopt the notion of …