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- PhD Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Linguistics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sandra Annear Thompson is an American linguist specializing in discourse analysis, typology, and interactional linguistics. She is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara . She has published numerous books, her research has appeared in many linguistics journals, and she serves on the editorial board of several prominent linguistics journals.
Sandra Thompson 's Published Works
Published Works
- Rhetorical Structure Theory: Toward a functional theory of text organization (1988) (3893)
- Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar (1989) (2635)
- Transitivity in Grammar and Discourse (1980) (2527)
- The discourse basis for lexical categories in universal grammar (1984) (623)
- Interaction and grammar: Interactional units in conversation: syntactic, intonational, and pragmatic resources for the management of turns (1996) (594)
- Interaction and grammar: Frontmatter (1996) (544)
- “Object complements” and conversation towards a realistic account (2002) (380)
- Relational propositions in discourse (1986) (377)
- Rhetorical structure theory and text analysis (1989) (367)
- Rhetorical Structure Theory: Description and Construction of Text Structures (1987) (351)
- The structure of discourse and ‘subordination’ (1987) (340)
- Rhetorical Structure Theory: A Framework for the Analysis of Texts (1987) (329)
- Discourse description : diverse linguistic analyses of a fund-raising text (1992) (323)
- A Discourse Explanation of the Grammar of Relative Clauses in English Conversation. (1990) (302)
- Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse (1988) (296)
- Three Frequency Effects in Syntax (1997) (295)
- The conversational use of reactive tokens in English, Japanese, and Mandarin (1996) (262)
- The acquisition of tone in Mandarin-speaking children (1977) (255)
- A quantitative perspective on the gramaticization of epistemic parentheticals in English (1991) (234)
- The language of turn and sequence (2002) (228)
- The discourse conditions for the use of the complementizer that in conversational English (1991) (224)
- Transitivity, clause structure, and argument structure: Evidence from conversation (2001) (202)
- Practices in the Construction of Turns: The "TCU" Revisited (1996) (200)
- Responses to Wh-Questions in English Conversation (2010) (183)
- Interactional units in conversation: Syntactic, intonational, and pragmatic resources for the mana (1996) (176)
- Grammar and written discourse: Initial vs. final purpose clauses in English (1985) (164)
- A discourse approach to the cross-linguistic category ‘Adjective’ (1989) (143)
- The clause as a locus of grammar and interaction (2005) (134)
- Concessive patterns in conversation (2000) (133)
- Grammatical constructions : their form and meaning (1999) (130)
- On Conditionals: CONDITIONALS IN DISCOURSE: A TEXT-BASED STUDY FROM ENGLISH (1986) (129)
- Grammar in Everyday Talk: Building Responsive Actions (2015) (127)
- What can conversation tell us about syntax (1996) (123)
- The iconicity of the universal categories “noun” and “verb” (1985) (122)
- Third-person pronouns and zero-anaphora in Chinese discourse (1979) (116)
- CO-VERBS IN MANDARIN CHINESE: VERBS OR PREPOSITIONS? (1974) (100)
- Discourse and grammar (1990) (100)
- Relative Clauses in English conversation: Relativizers, frequency, and the notion of construction (2007) (99)
- Resultative Verb Compounds in Mandarin Chinese: A Case for Lexical Rules. (1973) (99)
- The grammaticization of but as a final particle in English conversation (2008) (95)
- The predictability of informal conversation (1990) (95)
- Projectability and clause combining in interaction (2008) (92)
- An explanation of word order change SVO→ SOV (1974) (88)
- “Subordination” in Universal Grammar (1984) (86)
- Essays on language function and language type : dedicated to T. Givón (1997) (75)
- Modern English from a Typological Point of View: Some Implications of the Function of Word Order (1978) (73)
- “Subordination” and narrative event structure (1987) (71)
- The Deep Structure of Relative Clauses (1970) (69)
- Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Lexical nominalization (2007) (64)
- A linguistic practice for retracting overstatements: ‘Concessive repair’ (2005) (63)
- The rhetorical structure of US-American and Dutch fund-raising letters (1993) (63)
- Reenactments in conversation: Gaze and recipiency (2014) (62)
- The Passive in English: A Discourse Perspective (1987) (61)
- English backchannels in Mandarin conversations: A case study of superstratum pragmatic ‘interference’ (1991) (60)
- The Discourse Motivation for the Perfect Aspect: The Mandarin ParticleLE (1982) (59)
- The semantic function of word order: a case study in Mandarin (1975) (57)
- Interaction and grammar: Introduction (1996) (55)
- The Pragmatic Nature of the So-Called Subject Marker Ga in Japanese: Evidence from Conversation (2000) (53)
- Bodily-Visual Practices and Turn Continuation (2012) (52)
- Japanese (w)atashi/ore/boku `I': They're not just pronouns (2003) (48)
- On assessing situations and events in conversation: `extraposition' and its relatives (2008) (47)
- The iconicity of "dative shift" in English: Considerations from information flow in discourse (1995) (47)
- Discourse Motivations for the Core-Oblique Distinction as a Language Universal (1997) (46)
- Interaction and Syntax in the Structure of Conversational Discourse: Collaboration, Overlap, and Syntactic Dissociation (1996) (44)
- Conversation Analysis and Linguistics (2012) (44)
- Unattached NPs in English Conversation (1994) (42)
- The Chinese Language Today: Features of an Emerging Standard (1969) (41)
- Antithesis: A Study in Clause Combining and Discourse Structure. (1987) (38)
- Units and/or Action Trajectories?: The language of grammatical categories and the language of social action (2013) (37)
- A semantic study of transitivity relations in Chinese By Shou-hsin Teng (review) (2015) (37)
- Language Typology and Syntactic Description: Adverbial clauses (2007) (36)
- Studies in transitivity (1986) (36)
- A Reference Grammar of Wappo (2019) (36)
- Iconicity and ‘indirect objects’ in English (1987) (33)
- Assertions from Discourse Structure (1985) (33)
- Language universals, discourse pragmatics, and semantics (1993) (33)
- A Discourse Account of the Korean Accusative Marker (1989) (32)
- The semantics and pragmatics of associative de in Mandarin discourse (1992) (30)
- Development of the Causative in Mandarin Chinese: Interaction of Diachronic Processes in Syntax (1976) (30)
- Final but in Australian English conversation (2009) (29)
- Constraints on the Distribution of NP Clauses (1977) (28)
- Deconstructing “Zero Anaphora” in Japanese (1997) (23)
- The categories and types of present-day English word-formation; a synchronic-diachronic approach: Hans Marchand Second, completely revised and enlarged edition. Handbücher für das Stadium der Anglistik. C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung. München 1969. xxvi, 545 pp. DM 40 (1971) (21)
- Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics in Honor of Charles J. Fillmore (1996) (20)
- Relativization Strategies in Wappo (1978) (19)
- A discourse explanation for the cross-linguistic differences in the grammar of incorporation and negation (1998) (19)
- The Discourse Motivation for the Perfect Aspect (1982) (18)
- The Acquisition of Tone (1978) (17)
- Turns and Increments: A Comparative Perspective (2012) (17)
- Discourse grammar and typology : papers in honor of John W.M. Verhaar (1995) (16)
- On formulating reference: An interactional approach to relative clauses in English conversation (1990) (16)
- Japanese Negotiation Through Emerging Final Particles in Everyday Talk (2012) (15)
- Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics (1997) (14)
- Language and bodily resources: ‘Response packages’ in response to polar questions in English (2018) (14)
- On addressing functional explanation in linguistics (1991) (14)
- The Grammaticalization of final particles (2011) (12)
- On “Middle Voice” Verbs in Mandarin (1994) (12)
- Instead of and rather than clauses in English (1972) (12)
- SYNCHRONY AND DIACHRONY: THE MANDARIN COMPARATIVE (1980) (11)
- Fixedness in Japanese adjectives in conversation: Toward a new understanding of a lexical (‘part-of-speech’) category (2009) (10)
- Recent Developments in Functional Approaches to Chinese (1996) (10)
- Conversation, grammar, and fixedness: Adjectives in Mandarin revisited (2010) (10)
- Subject and Word Order in Wappo (1977) (8)
- Understanding ‘clause’ as an emergent ‘unit’ in everyday conversation (2019) (8)
- THE MEANING AND STRUCTURE OF COMPLEX SENTENCES WITH -ZHE IN MANDARIN CHINESE* (1976) (7)
- Negative scope, temporality, fixedness, and right- and left-branching: Implications for typology and cognitive processing (2017) (7)
- Transitivity, clause structure, and argument structure (2001) (7)
- Modulating action through minimization: Syntax in the service of offering and requesting (2020) (6)
- On the issue of word order in a synchronic grammar: A case against ‘movement transformations’ (1976) (6)
- A linguistic practice for retracting overstatements (2005) (6)
- The grammar of proposals for joint activities (2021) (6)
- On the Syntax and Semantics of Adjectives With 'IT' Subjects and Infinitival Complements in English (1977) (5)
- Discourse: A Means for Understanding Normal and Disordered Language (1991) (5)
- On relative clause structures in relation to the nature of sentence complexity (1969) (4)
- The causative in Wappo: A special case of doubling (1977) (4)
- Chapter 5. English why don’t you X as a formulaic expression (2020) (4)
- Bilingual dictionaries and the notion of ‘lexical categories’ in Chinese (1983) (4)
- Action Ascription and Deonticity in Everyday Advice-Giving Sequences (2022) (3)
- Units and/or Action Trajectories? (2013) (2)
- The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology: Language function (2014) (2)
- Text-generation as a linguistic research task (1989) (2)
- Resultative Verb Constructions and the Student of Chinese. (1972) (2)
- Interaction and Grammar: Predicative Adjective Constructions in English Conversation (2021) (1)
- Multimodality and the study of Chinese talk-in-interaction (2019) (1)
- A Grammatical description of Xuwen : A colloquial dialect of Lei-zhou peninsula (Part II) (1983) (1)
- A Further Word on Final Particle but in Australian English Conversation (2011) (1)
- Fixedness in Japanese adjectives in conversation (2009) (1)
- Responses in information-seeking sequences with ‘Question-word Interrogatives’ (2015) (1)
- Test It, Fix It Pre-Intermediate (English Grammar) Test It, Fix It Intermediate (English Grammar) ny Kenna Bourke (2005) (1)
- Access methods for Large . . . (1993) (1)
- Relative Clause Structures and Constraints on Types of Complex Sentences (1970) (1)
- Thompson The Language of Turn and Sequence (2003) (1)
- Index to Volume 60 (1984) (2015) (0)
- Gestural Resonance: The Negotiation of Differential Form and Function in Embodied Action (2013) (0)
- Grammar in Everyday Talk: Responses in request-for-action sequences (2015) (0)
- 3. THE NOUN PHRASE (2019) (0)
- Relativization Strategies in Wappo - eScholarship (1978) (0)
- 2. WORD ORDER (2019) (0)
- 4. THE VERB PHRASE (2019) (0)
- APPENDIX: ADDITIONAL VERB PARADIGMS (2019) (0)
- Introduction (1994) (0)
- 6. COMPLEX SENTENCES (2019) (0)
- Instead of an Introduction (1997) (0)
- The Editor's Department (2015) (0)
- Jessica R. Wirth (ed.), Beyond the sentence: Discourse and sentential form . Ann Arbor: Karoma, 1985. Pp. viii + 114. (1986) (0)
- Grammar in Everyday Talk: Bibliography (2015) (0)
- Diierent from the Main Center of Utterance C. (the 3.2 Generating Nominal Expressions (1996) (0)
- 5. SIMPLE CLAUSE TYPES (2019) (0)
- Forms of responsivity: Grammatical formats for responding to two types of request in conversation (2014) (0)
- YUNG-O BIQ, JAMES TAl, AND SANDRA THOMPSON CHAPTER 3 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN FUNCTIONAL APPROACHES TO CHINESE (0)
- Responses in informing sequences (2015) (0)
- Beyond dichotomies and continua?: an interactional approach to the grammar of clause combining in Japanese (2016) (0)
- Is Japanese ga a subject marker'? : Evidence from conversation (1999) (0)
- Contents of Previous Volumes (1982) (0)
- Miscellaneous notes and papers on Wappo and Yuki (1970) (0)
- Questions and responses in English conversation By Anna-Brita Stenström (review) (2015) (0)
- ‘Something that’s very American’: The interactional role of Light-Head Relative Clauses (2022) (0)
- A Reference Grammar of Wappo - eScholarship (2014) (0)
- 1. PHONEMIC INVENTORY AND TRANSCRIPTION (2019) (0)
- Chapter 12. What can Japanese conversation tell us about ‘NP’? (2020) (0)
- Sequences with assessment responses (2015) (0)
- LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY: The Contextiialization of Language. Peter Auer and Aldo di Luzio (1994) (0)
- LSY volume 50 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (2021) (0)
- Can temporal clauses be insubordinate? (2023) (0)
- Topic Proffers as Beginnings in Interaction: Gaze Practices (2018) (0)
- From His Colleagues (1997) (0)
- Interaction and grammar: Transcription conventions (1996) (0)
- Grammar in the construction of texts Ed. by James Monaghan (review) (2015) (0)
- Appendix: Transcription symbols (2015) (0)
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