Second Workshop on Non-narrative Text Structure
University of Texas at Austin, January 1999
Sponsors: The New York Community Trust, College of Liberal Arts, Department of Linguistics


Most of the papers presented at this workshop are available in the Working 
Papers, published by the Department of Linguistics, University of Texas.

Working Papers of the Second Workshop on Text Structure, January 1999

Table of Contents

Andrée Borillo, Université Toulouse-Le Mirail
Locative inversion and the descriptive genre in French

Herbert H. Clark, Stanford University
Passing time in conversation

Oesten Dahl, Stockholm University
Discourse referents in real life

Hans Kamp, A DRT-based treatment of the focus and focus frame division and its presuppositions: Sme cases discussed in Rooth (1996)

Manfred Krifka, University of Texas
For a structured account of questions and answers

Knud Lambrecht, University of Texas
Internal and external contextualization in English and French 
Presentational Constructions

Paul Portner and Raffaella Zanuttini, Georgetown University
The notion of clause type: Some considerations from exclamatives

Ellen Prince, University of Pennsylvania
How not to mark topics: "Topicalization' in English and Yiddish

Carlota S. Smith, University of Texas
Closed systems in discourse

Isabel G. Uxurruka, University of Texas and ILCLLI Basque Country
Alternative semantics vs a representational approach to focus in SDRT from a discourse perspective

Stephen Wechsler, University of Texas
Gender resolution in coordinate structures