All Outputs (5)

On being First (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Simard, C. (2015, December 2-4). On being First [Keynote]. 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 2-5). On the topic of insubordinate clauses [Paper presentation]. 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 8-9). Information structure in Gela: with special attention to word order variation [Paper presentation]. Information structure in Endangered Languages, SOAS.

Topics: what does prosody have to say? (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Simard, C., & Schultze-Berndt, E. (2015, May 8-9). Topics: what does prosody have to say? [Paper presentation]. Information structure in Endangered Languages, SOAS.

Prosody in linguistic description: making sense of TOPICS in Ngarinyman (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Simard, C. (2015, January 22). Prosody in linguistic description: making sense of TOPICS in Ngarinyman [Presentation / Talk]. Guest Lecture, University of Dusseldof.