Betty J. Birner

Professor

Linguistics, Cognitive Science

Office: RH 215A
Phone: 753-6602
Email: bbirner@niu.edu
Home Page: http://www.engl.niu.edu/bbirner/

Ph.D. Northwestern University; 1992

B.A. Hope College, Holland, Michigan; 1982

Linguistic Pragmatics

Discourse

Reference

Semantics/Pragmatics Interface

Selected Publications >

Current Courses >

Introduction to Pragmatics. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell (forthcoming August 2012).
With G. Ward. “Discourse Effects of Word Order Variation.” In K. von Heusinger, C. Maienborn, and P. Portner, eds., Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning. Berlin/Boston: Mouton de Gruyter, 2011. Vol. 2: 1934-1963.
With G. Ward. “Information Structure and Syntactic Structure.” Language and Linguistics Compass (Vol. 3, June 2009).
“Noncanonical Word Order and the Distribution of Inferrable Information in English.” In B. Shaer, P. Cook, and W. Frey, eds. Dislocation: Syntactic, Semantic, and Discourse Perspectives. Routledge, 2009.
With J. Kaplan and G. Ward. “Functional Compositionality and the Interaction of Discourse Constraints.” Language 83.2: 317-343 (2007).
With G. Ward, eds. Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean Studies in Pragmatics and Semantics in Honor of Laurence R. Horn. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2006.