All Outputs (9)

On being First (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Simard, C. (2015, December). On being First. Presented at Workshop on Information Structure in Spoken Language Corpora (ISSLaC2), CNRS, Paris, France

In a typological perspective, first positions in sentences have been associated with information flow (Firbas 1964). Corpus research in the world languages has yielded two major, and seemingly opposing, ordering patterns: 1) a ‘given-before-new’ orde... Read More about On being First.

On the topic of insubordinate clauses (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Simard, C., & Schultze-Berndt, E. (2015, September). On the topic of insubordinate clauses. Paper presented at 48th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Leiden, Netherlands

Information structure in Gela: with special attention to word order variation (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wegener, C., & Simard, C. (2015, May). Information structure in Gela: with special attention to word order variation. Paper presented at Information structure in Endangered Languages, SOAS

Topics: what does prosody have to say? (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Simard, C., & Schultze-Berndt, E. (2015, May). Topics: what does prosody have to say?. Paper presented at Information structure in Endangered Languages, SOAS

Prosody in linguistic description: making sense of TOPICS in Ngarinyman (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Simard, C. (2015, January). Prosody in linguistic description: making sense of TOPICS in Ngarinyman. Presented at Guest Lecture, University of Dusseldof

Language(s) in Context (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Simard, C. (2014, October). Language(s) in Context. Presented at Plants.Animals.Words, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

A study of the prosodic encoding of TOPICS as a category of information structure in Ngarinyman, a language of Australia (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Simard, C., Chiu, F., & Schultze-Berndt, E. (2014, July). A study of the prosodic encoding of TOPICS as a category of information structure in Ngarinyman, a language of Australia. Poster presented at Labphon 2014, Tokyo, Japan

Another look at right-detached NPs (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Simard, C. (2013, December). Another look at right-detached NPs. Presented at Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 4 Conference (LDLT4), London, United Kingdom

This paper proposes an analysis of right-detached NPs constructions in Jaminjung, a language of Northern Australia, in which right-detached NPs serve different discourse functions, either as reactivated topics or as afterthoughts, a distinction estab... Read More about Another look at right-detached NPs.

The expression of argument focus in Ngarinyman, Jaminjung, Savosavo and Gela (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schultze-Berndt, E., Wegener, C., & Simard, C. (2013, June). The expression of argument focus in Ngarinyman, Jaminjung, Savosavo and Gela. Paper presented at Workshop on Information Structure in Spoken Language Corpora (ISSLaC), University of Bielefeld, Germany