Cann, Ronnie

Cann, Ronnie

Personal Information
Position:	Emeritus Professor
Research areas:	Syntax Semantics
Location:	Edinburgh, UK
Publications
Completability vs (In)completeness Grammar as Procedures: Language, Interaction, and the Predictive Turn What Do Words Do for Us? Action-Based Grammar: Response to commentaries on Kempson et al. ``Languages as Mechanisms for Interaction' Completability vs (In)completeness Language as Mechanisms for Interaction Ellipsis On Coordination in Dialogue: subsentential talk and its implications Tree growth dynamics Natural-language Syntax as Procedures for Interpretation: the Dynamics of Ellipsis Construal Incrementality and Intention-Recognition in Utterance Processing Towards an account of the English Auxiliary System: building interpretations incrementally Splitting the `I's and Crossing the `You's: Context, Speech Acts and Grammar Semantics: an introduction to meaning in language Periphery Effects and the Dynamics of Tree Growth Production pressures, syntactic change and the emergence of clitic pronouns Context and Well-formedness: the Dynamics of Ellipsis Dynamic Syntax and dialogue modelling: Preliminaries for a dialogue-driven account of syntactic change Grammar Formalisms and Explanations of Dialogue Grammars as Parsers: Meeting the Dialogue Challenge Topic, Focus and The Structural Dynamics of Language Data at the Grammar-Pragmatics Interface: the Case of Resumptive Pronouns in English The Dynamics of Language Right Node Raising, coordination and the dynamics of language processing Towards a Dynamic Account of be in English Semantic Underspecification and the Interpretation of Copular Clauses in English What goes left and what goes right On Left and Right Dislocation: A Dynamic Perspective [View Less]

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