[Lingtyp] Before-constructions

[Paul J Hopper]

The question of before/after constituent placement could be seen in the context of the more general question of left-right asymmetries that was addressed in a workshop organized by Peter Auer in Freiburg in 2012.  The paper titles and authors were as follows:

Workshop on Left-Right Asymmetries (FRIAS, May 16–17, 2012).
Peter Auer (Freiburg), Left/Right-Asymmetries. An overview.
Karin Birkner (Bayreuth), Pre - and postnominal attribution: Relative clauses versus participles in spoken German.
Holger Diessel (Jena), Cross-linguistic asymmetries in the structure and function of pre- and postposed subordinate clauses.
Susanne Günthner (Münster), Dass-constructions in everyday German interactions: Uses of initial, final and unembedded dass-clauses.
Paul Hopper (Carnegie Mellon University), Asymmetries in Biclausal Constructions: Sluicing in English, with a note on German.
Ritva Laury (Helsinki), Detached NPs with relative clauses in Finnish conversation: participant treatment of prolepsis and expansion.
Jan Lindström (Helsinki) & Susanna Karlsson (Stockholm), Epistemic stance markers in turn initial and final position: Jag tycker and jag tror ‘I think’ in Swedish.
Jan-Ola Östman, Nog as a many-splendored praxis.
Yael Maschler (Haifa), VS/SV Asymmetries in Spoken Hebrew Narrative Discourse.
Simona Pekarek Doehler, Université de Neuchâtel, The grammar of list construction: left-dislocation and hanging topic as interactional resources.
Sandra A. Thompson (Santa Barbara), Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (Helsinki), Left-right asymmetries: the grammar of pro-repeat responses to informings in English conversation.
Wei Zhang (Hong Kong), Producing modifiers of the noun in Cantonese: their positions and functions.

The proceedings were not published, but I have the abstracts and could post them (where?--suggestions welcome) if there's interest.

- Paul Hopper

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Paul J. Hopper
Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Humanities
Department of English
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh PA 15213, USA


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