Parentheticals and related constructions: A  bibliography

This bibliography was originally composed for two courses on Parentheticals in English, taught at the University of Konstanz in winter 2006/07 and at FU Berlin in summer 2007. 
If you work on parentheticals or related constructions, please help me build up and maintain this bibliography by pointing out missing references to me (email). You can also send me comments or suggestions for improvement. Many thanks -- Nicole.

last entry: 2 July 2009 by Nicole Dehé

ACKEMA, Peter & Ad NEELEMAN. 2004. Beyond Morphology. Interface Conditions on Word Formation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Chapter 4 in particular)

ALTMANN, Hans. 1981. Formen der "Herausstellung" im Deutschen: Rechtsversetzung, Linksversetzung, Freies Thema und verwandte Konstruktionen (= Linguistische Arbeiten 106). Tübingen: Niemeyer.

ARNOLD, Doug. 2007. Non-restrictive relative clauses are not orphans. Journal of Linguistics 43(2): 271-309.

ARNOLD, Doug & Robert D. BORSLEY. 2008. Non-restrictive relative clauses, ellipsis and anaphora. In Proceedings of the HPSG08 Conference, ed. Stefan Müller, Stanford: CSLI Publications. (available from R. Borsley's research page)

ASHER, Nicholas. 2000. Truth conditional discourse semantics for parentheticals. Journal of Semantics 17(1): 31-50.

ASTRUC, Lluisa. 2003. Sentence external elements in Catalan. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 2: 15-31. (available online)

ASTRUC, Lluisa. 2005. The intonation of extra-sentential elements in Catalan and English. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cambridge.

BASSARAK, Armin. 1985. Zu den Beziehungen zwischen Parenthesen und ihren Trägersätzen. Zeitschrift für Phonetik, Sprachwissenschaft und Kommunikationsforschung 38(4): 368-375.

BAYER, Josef. 2005. Was beschränkt die Extraktion? Subjekt - Objekt vs. Topic - Fokus. In Deutsche Syntax: Empirie und Theorie, Franz Josef d'Avis (ed.), Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. 233-257 (available from Josef Bayer's homepage).

BAYER, Klaus. 1973. Verteilung und Funktion der sogenannten Parenthese in Texten gesprochener Sprache. Deutsche Sprache 1: 64-115.

BECKMANN, Mary & Jan Edwards. 1990. Lengthenings and shortenings and the nature of prosodic constituency. In Papers in Laboratory Phonology I, John Kongston & Mary Beckmann (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 127-145.

BETTEN, Anne. 1976. Ellipsen, Anakoluthe und Parenthesen - Fälle für Grammatik, Stilistik, Sprechakttheorie oder Konversationsanalyse? Deutsche Sprache 4: 207-230.

BING, Janet M. 1985. Aspects of English Prosody. New York/ London: Garland.

BLAKEMORE, Diane. 1991. Performatives and parentheticals. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Vol. LXXXXXI, 197-213.

BLAKEMORE, Diane. 2005. and-parentheticals. Journal of Pragmatics 37: 1165-1181.

BLAKEMORE, Diane. 2006. Divisions of labour. The analysis of parentheticals. Lingua 116: 1670-1687.

BLAKEMORE, Diane. 2007. Or-parentheticals, that is-parentheticals and the pragmatics of reformulation. Journal of Linguistics 43(2): 311-339.

BOLINGER, Dwight. 1989. Intonation and its Uses - Melody in Grammar and Discourse. London: Edward Arnold. (pp. 185ff in particular)

BRANDT, Margareta 1996. Subordination und Parenthese als Mittel der Informationsstrukturierung in Texten. In Ebenen der Textstruktur, Wolfgang Motsch (ed.), Tübingen: Niemeyer, pp. 211-240.

BRINTON, Laurel J. 2008. The Commen Clause in English: Syntactic Origins and Pragmatic Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

BURTON-ROBERTS, Noel. 1999. Language, linear precedence and parentheticals. In The Clause in English, Peter Collins & David Lee (eds.), Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 33-52.

BURTON-ROBERTS, Noel. 2006. Parentheticals. In Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd edition, Vol. 9), ed. Keith Brown, Elsevier Science. 179-182.

CID, Aranzazu García. 1995. Parenthesen, Einschübe und Kommentare: Zur Klassifikation von Nebenprädikaten in gesprochenen spanischen Texten. Arbeitspapier 25, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität zu Köln.

CORVER, Norbert & Craig THIERSCH. 2002. Remarks on parentheticals. In Progress in Grammar. Articles at the 20th Anniversary of the Comparison of Grammatical Models Group in Tilburg, M. van Oostendorp & E. Anagnostopoulou (eds.). Online publications, available here.

COOPER, William E. & John M. Sorensen. 1981. Fundamental Frequency in Sentence Production. New York/ Heidelberg/ Berlin: Springer. (pp. 72ff. in particular)

CRYSTAL, David. 1969. Prosodic Systems and Intonation in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

D'AVIS, Franz Josef. 2005. Über Parenthesen. In Deutsche Syntax: Empirie und Theorie, Franz Josef d'Avis (ed.), Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. 259-279.

DEL GOBBO, Francesca. 2007. On the syntax and semantics of appositive relative clauses. In Parentheticals [Linguistik aktuell/ Linguistics today 106], Nicole Dehé & Yordanka Kavalova (eds.), Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 173-201.

DEHÉ, Nicole. 2007. The relation between syntactic and prosodic parenthesis. In Parentheticals [Linguistik aktuell/ Linguistics today 106], Nicole Dehé & Yordanka Kavalova (eds.), Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 261-284.

DEHÉ, Nicole. To appear. Clausal parentheticals, intonational phrasing, and prosodic theory. Journal of Linguistics 45 (2009). (full accepted version available from LingBuzz)

DEHÉ, Nicole & Yordanka KAVALOVA. 2006. The syntax, pragmatics and prosody of parenthetical what. English Language & Linguistics 10 (2): 289-320.

DEHÉ, Nicole & Yordanka KAVALOVA (eds.) 2007. Parentheticals [Linguistik aktuell/ Linguistics today 106]. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (reviewed here)

DEHÉ, Nicole & Yordanka KAVALOVA. 2007. Parentheticals: An introduction. In Parentheticals [Linguistik aktuell/ Linguistics today 106], Nicole Dehé & Yordanka Kavalova (eds.), Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 1-22.

DEHÉ, Nicole & Anne WICHMANN. To appear. The multifunctionality of epistemic parentheticals in discourse: prosodic cues to the semantic-pragmatic boundary. Functions of Language (abstract and full version).

DESMETS, Marianne & Laurent ROUSSARIE. 2000. French reportive comme clauses: A case of parenthetical adjunction. In Proceedings of the 7th International HPSG-Conference, UC Berkely, Dan Flickinger & Andreas Kathol (eds), 43-62. (available online)

DÖRING, Sandra. 2007. Quieter, faster, lower, and set off by pauses? Reflections on prosodic aspects of parenthetical constructions in modern German. In Parentheticals [Linguistik aktuell/ Linguistics today 106], Nicole Dehé & Yordanka Kavalova (eds.), Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 285-307.

DOWNING, Bruce T. 1970. Syntactic structure and phonological phrasing in English.  Doctoral dissertation, University of Texas / Austin.
EMONDS, Joseph. 1973. Parenthetical clauses. In You take the high node and I'll take the low node, C. Corum, T.C. Smith-Stark & A. Weiser (eds.), Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 333-347.

EMONDS, Joseph. 1976. A Transformational Approach to English Syntax. Root, Structure-Preserving, and Local Transformations. New York/ San Francisco/ London: Academic Press.

EMONDS, Joseph. 1979. Appositive relatives have no properties. Linguistic Inquiry 10(2): 211-243.

ESPINAL, M. Teresa. 1991. The representation of disjunct constituents. Language 67(4): 726-762.

FAGYAL, Zsuzsanna. 2002. Prosodic boundaries in the vicinity of utterance-medial parentheticals in French. Probus 14: 93-111.

FISCHER, Olga. 2007. The development of English parentheticals: A case of grammaticalization? In Tracing English Through Time. Explorations in Language Variation. Smit, U.,S. Dollinger, J. Hüttner, G. Kaltenböck, U. Lutzky (eds.), Wenen: Braumüller. 99-114.

FORTMANN, Christian. 2005. On parentheticals (in German). In Proceedings of the LFG05 Conference, Bergen, Miriam Butt  & Tracy Holloway King (eds.), 166-185. (available online)

FORTMANN, Christian. 2007. The complement of reduced parentheticals. In Parentheticals [Linguistik aktuell/ Linguistics today 106], Nicole Dehé & Yordanka Kavalova (eds.), Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 89-119.

FRASER, Bruce. 1980. Conversational mitigation. Journal of Pragmatics 4 (4): 341-350.

FROTA, Sónia et al. 2005. The phonetics and phonology of intonational phrasing in Romance. Research report GGT 05-13, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. (available online from this page)

GREWENDORF, Günther. 1988. Aspekte der deutschen Syntax. Eine Rektions-Bindungs-Analyse. Tübingen: Narr.

GROSZ, Barbara & Julia HIRSCHBERG. 1992. Some intonational characteristics of discourse structure. In Proceedings of ICSLP-92, 429-432. Banff. (available from this page)

GUSSENHOVEN, Carlos. 1990. Tonal association domains and the prosodic hierarchy in English. In Studies in the Pronunciation of English. A Commemorative volume in honour of A.C. Gimson, Susan Ramsaran (ed), 27-37. London/ New York: Routledge.
HAEGEMAN, Liliane. 1988. Parenthetical adverbials: the radical orphanage approach. In Aspects of Modern Linguistics: Papers presented to Masatomo Ukaji on his 60th birthday, S. Chiba et al (eds.), Tokyo: Kaitakushi. 232-254.

HAIDER, Hubert. 1993. ECP-Etüden. Anmerkungen zur Extraktion aus eingebetteten Verb-Zweit-Sätzen. Linguistische Berichte 145: 185-203.

HAIDER, Hubert. 2005. Parenthesen - Evidenz aus Bindungsverhältnissen. In Deutsche Syntax: Empirie und Theorie, Franz Josef d'Avis (ed.), Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. 281-294.

HAND, Michael. 1993. Parataxis and Parentheticals. Linguistics and Philosophy 16: 495-507.

HANSEN, Gert Foget. 2002. A preliminary investigation of intonation in Danish sentences with parenthetical phrases. In TMH-QPSR Vol. 44 - Fonetik 2002. (available online)

HOFFMANN, Ludger. 1998. Parenthesen. Linguistische Berichte 175: 299-328.

HOLMBERG, Anders. 1983. Performer-parentheticals in Swedish, English and French. In Papers from the Seventh Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics I, Fred Karlsson (ed.), 60-79. University of Helsinki: Dept of General Linguistics.

JAYEZ, Jacques & Corinne ROSSARI. 2004. Parentheticals as conventional implicatures. Center for the Study of Language and Information. (available online; pdf-file)

KALTENBÖCK, Gunther. 2005. Charting the boundaries of syntax: a taxonomy of spoken parenthetical clauses. Vienna English Working Papers 14(1): 21-53. (available online)

KALTENBÖCK, Gunther. 2007. Position, prosody, and scope: the case of English comment clauses. Vienna English Working Papers  16(1): 3-38. (available online)

KALTENBÖCK, Gunther. 2007. Spoken parenthetical clauses in English: A taxonomy. In Parentheticals [Linguistik aktuell/ Linguistics today 106], Nicole Dehé & Yordanka Kavalova (eds.), Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 25-52.

KAVALOVA, Yordanka. 2007. And-parenthetical clauses. In Parentheticals [Linguistik aktuell/ Linguistics today 106], Nicole Dehé & Yordanka Kavalova (eds.), Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 145-172.

KIZIAK, Tanja. 2007. Long extraction or parenthetical insertion? Evidence from judgement studies. In Parentheticals [Linguistik aktuell/ Linguistics today 106], Nicole Dehé & Yordanka Kavalova (eds.), Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 121-144.

KUTIK, Elanah J, William E. COOPER & Suzanne BOYCE. 1983. Declination and fundamental frequency in speakers' production of parenthetical and main clauses. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 73(5): 1731-1738.

LADD, D. Robert. 1986. Intonational phrasing: the case for recursive prosodic structure. Phonology Yearbook 3: 311-340.

LOCAL, John. 1992. Continuing and restarting. In The Contextualization of Language, Peter Auer & Aldo di Luzio (eds.), Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 273-296.
MAZELAND, Harrie. 2007. Parenthetical sequences. Journal of Pragmatics 39(10): 1816-1869.

McCAWLEY, James D. 1982. Parentheticals and discontinuous constituent structure. Linguistic Inquiry 13 (1): 91-106.

MITTWOCH, Anita. 1979. Final parentheticals with English questions. Journal of Pragmatics 3: 401-412.

NOSEK, Jirí. 1973. Parenthesis in modern colloquial English. Prague Studies in English 15: 99-116.

PALACAS, Arthur L. 1989. Parentheticals and personal voice. Written Communication 6: 506-527.

PAYÀ, Marta. 2003. Prosody and pragmatics in parenthetical insertions in Catalan. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 2: 207-227.  (available online)

PETERS, Jörg. 2006. Syntactic and prosodic parenthesis. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody, 2-5 May 2006, Dresden.

PETERSON, Peter. 1999. On the boundaries of syntax - Non-syntagmatic relations. In The Clause in English, Peter Collins & David Lee (eds.), Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 229-250.

PITTNER, Karin. 1995. Zur Syntax von Parenthesen. Linguistische Berichte 156: 85-108.

POTTS, Christopher. 2002. The syntax and semantics of as-parentheticals. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 20: 623-689.

POTTS, Christopher. 2002. The lexical semantics of parenthetical-as and appositive-which. Syntax 5 (1): 55-88.

PRICE, P.J., M. Ostendorf, S. Shattuck-Hufnagel & C. Fong. 1991. The use of prosody in syntactic disambiguation. Journal of the Acoustic Society of America 90(6): 2956-2970.

PRIMUS, Beatrice. 2008. Diese - etwas vernachlässigte - pränominale Herausstellung. In Deutsche Sprache 36: 3-26.

REINHART, Tanya. 1983. Point of view in language - The use of parentheticals. In Essays on Deixis, Gisa Rauh (ed.), Tübingen: Gunter Narr. 169-194.

REIS, Marga. 1995. Wer glaubst du hat recht? On so-called extractions from verb-second clauses and verb-first parenthetical constructions in German. Sprache und Pragmatik 36: 27-83.

REIS, Marga. 2000. On the parenthetical features of German. Was ....W- constructions and how to account for them. In Wh-Scope Marking [Linguistik Aktuell/ Linguistics Today 37], Uli Lutz, Gereon Müller & Arnim v. Stechow (eds), Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 359-407.

REIS, Marga. 2002. Wh-movement and integrated parenthetical constructions. In Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax, Proceedings from the 15th Workshop on Comparative Germanic Syntax (= Linguistik Aktuell/ Linguistics Today 53), C. Jan-Wouter Zwart & Werner Abraham (eds.). Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 3-40.

ROSS, John Robert. 1973. Slifting. In The Formal Analysis of Natural Languages. Proceedings of the First International Conference, Maurice Gross, Morris Halle & Marcel-Paul Schützenberger (eds.), The Hague/ Paris: Mouton. 133-169.

ROUCHOTA, Villy. 1998. Procedural meaning and parenthetical discourse markers. In Discourse Markers: Descriptions and Theory (Pragmatics & Beyond, New Series, 57), Andreas Jucker & Yael Ziv (eds.), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.: 97-126.

SAFIR, Ken. 1986. Relative clauses in a theory of binding and levels. Linguistic Inquiry 17(4): 663-689.

SCHELFHOUT, Carla, Peter-Arno COPPEN & Nelleke OOSTDIJK. 2003. Positions of parentheticals and interjections. In Linguistics in the Netherlands 2003, Leonie Cornips & Paula Fikkert (eds.), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.: 155-166.

SCHELFHOUT, Carla, Peter-Arno COPPEN & Nelleke OOSTDIJK. 2004. Finite comment clauses in Dutch: A corpus-based approach. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 16(4): 331-350.

SCHNEIDER, Stefan. 2007. Reduced Parenthetical Clauses as Mitigators: A Corpus Study of Spoken French, Italian and Spanish (= Studies in Corpus Linguistics 27). Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

SCHNEIDER, Stefan. 2007. Reduced parenthetical clauses in Romance languages - A pragmatic typology. In Parentheticals [Linguistik aktuell/ Linguistics today 106], Nicole Dehé & Yordanka Kavalova (eds.), Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 237-258.

SCHWYZER, Eduard. 1939. Die Parenthese im engern und im weitern Sinne. [Abhandlungen der Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften]. Berlin: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften/ Walter de Gruyter.

SOMMERFELDT, Karl-Ernst. 1984. Zu Verdichtungserscheinungen im Satzbau der deutschen Sprache der Gegenwart (unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Parenthesen). Zeitschrift für Phonetik, Sprachwissenschaft und Kommunikationsforschung 37: 242-248.

STEINBACH, Markus. 1999. Notes on parenthetical constructions. In Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340, Bericht Nr. 144. Universität Tübingen. (available online)

STEINBACH, Markus. 2007. Integrated parentheticals and assertional complements. In Parentheticals [Linguistik aktuell/ Linguistics today 106], Nicole Dehé & Yordanka Kavalova (eds.), Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 53-87.

STENSTRÖM, Anna-Brita. 1995. Some remarks on comment clauses. In The Verb in Contemporary English, Bas Aarts & Charles F. Meyer (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 290-301.

STOLTENBURG, Benjamin. 2003. Parenthesen im gesprochenen Deutsch. InLiSt - Interaction and Linguistic Structures, No 34. (available online)

TAGLICHT, Josef. 1998. Constraints on intonational phrasing in English. Journal of Linguistics 34:181-211.

TAPPE, Hans Thilo. 1981. Wer glaubst du hat recht? Einige Bemerkungen zur COMP-COMP-Bewegung im Deutschen. In Sprache: Formen und Strukturen. Akten des 15. Linguistischen Kolloquiums, Münster 1980, Band 1 (= Linguistische Arbeiten 98), Manfred Kohrt & Jürgen Lenerz (eds.), Tübingen: Niemeyer. 203-212.

THOMPSON, Sandra A. & Anthony MULAC. 1991. A quantitative perspective on the grammaticization of epistemic parentheticals in English. In Approaches to Grammaticalization. Vol 2: Types of grammatical markers. (Typological Studies in Language 19.2), Elizabeth C. Traugott & Bernd Heine (eds.). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 313-327.

URMSON, J.O. 1952. Parenthetical verbs. Mind 61: 480-496.

VRIES, Mark de. 2003. Three-dimensional grammar. In Linguistics in the Netherlands 2003, Leonie Cornips & Paula Fikkert (eds.), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 201-212.

VRIES, Mark de. 2005. Coordination and syntactic hierarchy. Studia Linguistics 59(1): 83-105.

VRIES, Mark de. 2007. Invisible constituents? Parentheses as B-merged adverbial phrases. In Parentheticals [Linguistik aktuell/ Linguistics today 106], Nicole Dehé & Yordanka Kavalova (eds.), Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 203-234.

WAGNER, Michael. 2004. Asymmetries in the syntax and prosody of verb-initial interpolated clauses. In Proceedings of ConSOLE XII, S. Blaho, L. Vicente & Mark de Vos (eds.), Leiden University, pp. 201-215. (available online)

WICHMANN, Anne. 2000. Intonation and Discourse. Beginnings, Middles and Ends. London: Longman. (pp. 93-99 in particular)

WICHMANN, Anne. 2001. Spoken parentheticals. In A Wealth of English (Studies in honour of Göran Kjellmer), Karin Aijmer (ed.), Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis. 177-193.

ZIV, Yael. 1985. Parentheticals and functional grammar. In Syntax and Pragmatics in Functional Grammar, A.M. Bolkestein et al (eds.), Dordrecht: Foris. 181-199.

ZIV, Yael. 2002. This, I believe, is a processing instruction: Discourse linking via parentheticals. In Proceedings of Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics 18, Bar Ilan University, Yehuda N. Falk (ed.). Online publication. (available here).


Review articles (by reviewed book):

Dehé & Kavalova (eds.) 2007
HOWE, Chad. 2008. Review of Parentheticals. In LINGUIST List, Vol-19-1761.
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