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Francis Cornish

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Presentation

Possessing a PhD in Linguistics (University of Sussex, 1982), he was Professor of English Linguistics in the Studies of the Anglophone World department at the University of Toulouse II, France. Now retired, he is currently on the editorial board of the journal *French Language Studies* (CUP), and is a member of the advisory board of the French linguistics on-line journal *Discours*, as well as of the research unit *S’caladis* (semantics and discourse) within the research group CLLE-ERSS at Toulouse II. Francis has authored two books on anaphora in English and French within a discourse context (Routledge, 2015, republished from a book originally published by Croom Helm, London in 1986, and Oxford UP, 1999). He has also written extensively on anaphora, deixis, discourse structure, L2 reading, teaching and learning, agreement, information structure, reference, predication and the lexical semantics-syntax interface. In the early 2000s, he initiated a series of psycholinguistic experiments testing native English and French speakers’ processing of object pronouns in real time, the results of which are reported in Cornish *et al.* (2005) ‘Indirect anaphora in English and French: a crosslinguistic study of pronoun resolution’ (*Journal of Memory and Language* 52(3)). [cornish@univ-tlse2.fr](<mailto: cornish@univ-tlse2.fr>)

Publications

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L’anaphore revisitée : fonctionnements discursifs et interactionnels

Francis Cornish
Langue française, 2021, 210 (2), pp.9-20. ⟨10.3917/lf.210.0009⟩
Journal articles hal-03769604v2
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Les données en linguistique : choix, nature et exploitation. Une vue personnelle

Francis Cornish
Travaux de Linguistique : Revue Internationale de Linguistique Française, 2019, 79 (2), pp.7-42. ⟨10.3917/tl.079.0007⟩
Journal articles hal-03768993v1
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Review of A. Nagy (2017) *Des pronoms au texte. Etudes de linguistique textuelle*

Francis Cornish
2019
Journal articles hal-01926858v1
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Review of *The Story of Zero* by Talmy Givon (John Benjamins, 2017)

Francis Cornish
2019
Journal articles hal-01940675v1
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Revisiting the system of English relative clauses: structure, semantics, discourse functionality

Francis Cornish
English Language and Linguistics, 2018, 22, pp.431 - 456
Journal articles hal-01923355v1
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SN démonstratifs et anadeixis : sens « spatial » ou valeurs tributaires d'une stratégie pragmatique potentielle ?

Francis Cornish
Journal of French Language Studies, 2017, 27, pp.215 - 239. ⟨10.1017/SO959269515000514⟩
Journal articles hal-01923305v1

A critical look at the notion “pro-form” in current work in Linguistics. Evidence from indexical markers, spoken discourse and (French) child language

Francis Cornish , Anne Salazar Orvig
Language Sciences, 2016, 54, pp.58 - 76
Journal articles halshs-01467867v1
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Procédures référentielles indexicales, relations rhétoriques et structuration du discours

Francis Cornish
Discours - Revue de linguistique, psycholinguistique et informatique, 2015, ⟨10.4000/discours.9098⟩
Journal articles hal-01922047v1
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On the dual nature of the Functional Discourse Grammar model

Francis Cornish
Language Sciences, 2013, 38, pp.83-98
Journal articles hal-00965257v1

Micro-syntax, macro-syntax, foregrounding and backgrounding in discourse. When indexicals target discursively subsidiary information

Francis Cornish
Journal of Belgian Linguistics, 2012, 26, pp.6-34
Journal articles hal-00976961v1
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Micro-syntax, macro-syntax, foregrounding and backgrounding in discourse....

Francis Cornish
Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 2012, 26, pp.6-34
Journal articles hal-00965659v1
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'Strict' anadeixis, discourse deixis and text structuring

Francis Cornish
Language Sciences, 2011, 33 (5), pp.753-767
Journal articles hal-00966803v1
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Indexicaux, discours et mémoire discursive...

Francis Cornish
Linx, 2010, 62-63, pp.111-133
Journal articles hal-00961149v1
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Anaphora: Text-based or discourse-dependent? Functionalist vs. formalist accounts

Francis Cornish
Functions of Language, 2010, 17 (2), pp.207-241. ⟨10.1075/fol.17.2.03cor⟩
Journal articles hal-00966398v1
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"Text" and "discourse" as "context"

Francis Cornish
Working Papers in Functional Discourse Grammar (WP-FDG-82): The London Papers I, 2009, 2009, 1 (1), pp.97-115
Journal articles hal-00961139v1
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Inter-sentential anaphora and coherence relations in discourse: a perfect match

Francis Cornish
Language Sciences, 2009, 31 (5), pp.572-592
Journal articles hal-00966791v1
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Le rôle des anaphores dans la mise en place des relations de cohérence dans le discours: l'hypothèse de J.R. Hobbs

Francis Cornish
Journal of French Language Studies, 2009, 19 (2), pp.159-181. ⟨10.1017/S0959269509003731⟩
Journal articles hal-00967873v1

Présentation du numéro thématique 19.2 du Journal of French Language Studies: "Relations de cohérence et fonctionnement des anaphores"

Francis Cornish
French Language Studies, 2009, pp.151-157
Journal articles hal-00975769v1
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How indexicals function in texts: Discourse, text, and one neo-Gricean account of indexical reference

Francis Cornish
Journal of Pragmatics, 2008, 40 (6), pp.997-1018
Journal articles hal-00967884v1
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Relations de cohérence en discours...

Francis Cornish
CORELA - COgnition, REprésentation, LAngage, 2006, Numéro spécial, Revue en ligne (p. non numérotées)
Journal articles hal-00963618v1
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RELATIONS DE COHÉRENCE EN DISCOURS : CRITÈRES DE RECONNAISSANCE, CARACTÉRISATION ET ARTICULATION COHÉSION-COHÉRENCE

Francis Cornish
CORELA - COgnition, REprésentation, LAngage, 2006
Journal articles hal-03772336v1
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Compléments nuls vs. pronoms objets manifestes en anglais en tant qu'anaphoriques : syntaxe, sémantique ou pragmatique ?

Francis Cornish
Cahiers de Grammaire, 2006, 30, pp.89-101
Journal articles hal-00967336v1
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Prescriptions d’itinéraires : rôles de l’organisation spatio-temporelle, de la structure référentielle, de la mémoire et du genre

Karine Rricalens , Laure Sarda , Francis Cornish
Journal of French Language Studies, 2005
Journal articles hal-03793937v1
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Anaphora: lexico-textual structure, or means for utterance integration within a discourse? A critique of the Functional Grammar account

Francis Cornish
Linguistics, 2002, 40 (3), pp.469-493
Journal articles hal-00967224v1
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'Downstream' effects on the predicate in a Functional Grammar clause derivation

Francis Cornish
Journal of Linguistics, 2002, 38 (2), pp.247-278
Journal articles hal-00965265v1
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L'inversion "locative" en français, italien et anglais...

Francis Cornish
Cahiers de Grammaire, 2001, 26, pp.101-123
Journal articles hal-00966827v1
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"Modal" 'that' as determiner and pronoun: the primacy of the cognitive-interactional dimension

Francis Cornish
English Language and Linguistics, 2001, 5 (2), pp.297-315
Journal articles hal-00952098v1
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L'ACCESSIBILITÉ COGNITIVE DES RÉFÉRENTS, LE CENTRAGE D'ATTENTION, ET LA STRUCTURATION DU DISCOURS : UNE VUE D'ENSEMBLE

Francis Cornish
Verbum: Analecta Neolatina, 2000, 22 (1), pp.7-30
Journal articles hal-00966837v1
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Référence indexicale et structuration du discours

Francis Cornish
Symposium S'caladis " Sens dessus-dessous : niveaux et domaines de réalisation du sens ", Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, Apr 2013, Toulouse, France
Conference papers hal-00961827v1

"Indexicals and context: How context constrains and is changed by the use of certain indexical referring procedures (deixis, "anadeixis" and anaphora)"

Francis Cornish
Séminaire de recherche: "Filología Inglesa 1", Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Jun 2013, Madrid, Spain
Conference papers hal-00977655v1

"Indexicals and context: Context-bound prerequisite(s), ongoing processing and aftermaths of the discourse referring act"

Francis Cornish
"Nouvelles perspectives sur l'anaphore: Points de vue linguistique, psycholinguistique et interactionnel", Apr 2012, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Conference papers hal-00976947v1

"Indexicals and the act of referring: How context constrains and is modified via deictic, anadeictic and anaphoric references"

Francis Cornish
8th International Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution Colloquium, Oct 2011, Faro, Portugal. pp.39-51
Conference papers hal-00976905v1

"Indexical reference within a discourse context: Anaphora, deixis, 'anadeixis' and ellipsis"

Francis Cornish
(Journée d'Etude) "L'ellipse et l'anaphore", Nov 2011, Paris, France
Conference papers hal-00976913v1

(Avec L. Buscail) "When text creates its own context: Personal and demonstrative pronouns, accenting and contrast in English"

Francis Cornish
"Meaning and Context", Apr 2011, Bristol, United Kingdom
Conference papers hal-00976878v1
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Indexical reference within a discourse context

Francis Cornish
Indexical reference within a discourse context, Oct 2011, Paris, France
Conference papers hal-00963842v1

What agreement can do for FDG: French morpho-syntax, discourse and the Contextual and Conceptual components

Christel Le Bellec , Francis Cornish
1st International Conference on Functional Discourse Grammar, Jun 2010, Lisbonne, Portugal
Conference papers hal-00775945v1

(Avec C. Le Bellec) "What agreement can do for FDG: French morpho-syntax, discourse and the Contextual and Conceptual components"

Francis Cornish
1st international Conference of Functional Discourse Grammar, Jun 2010, Lisbonne, Portugal
Conference papers hal-00976590v1

Indexicaux, discours, et mémoire discursive: Ce que les premiers révèlent du second et de la troisième

Francis Cornish
"Entre syntzxe et discours", Nov 2010, Neuchâtel, Suisse
Conference papers hal-00976595v1
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Indexicaux : orientation cognitive, point de vue, et création de discours

Francis Cornish
Linguistique et discours, inPress
Book sections hal-01925938v2
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Anadeixis and the signalling of discourse structure

Francis Cornish
Referential devices in the grammar-discourse interface. Cohesion, coherence and cognition, inPress
Book sections hal-01925940v1
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Indexicaux : orientation cognitive, point de vue, et création de discours

Francis Cornish
Linguistique et discours. Description, typologie et théorisation, 2018
Book sections hal-03784523v1
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Indexicals and L2 learners' metadiscursive awareness

Francis Cornish
Breeze Ruth,; Sancho Guinda, Carmen. Essential Competencies for English-Medium University Teaching, 27, Springer, 2017, Educational Linguistics, 978-3-319-40954-2. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-40956-6_5⟩
Book sections hal-01923284v2
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Indexicaux et parenthèses : articulation du discours et reprise en boucle

Francis Cornish
Connexion et indexation. Ces liens qui tissent le texte, ENS Éditions, 2016, 9782847887983. ⟨10.4000/books.enseditions.6847⟩
Book sections hal-02017869v1
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"Agreement" as a perspectivizing device in discourse: The view from French

Francis Cornish
María de los Ángeles Gómez González, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco Gonzálvez-García. Theory and Practice in Functional-Cognitive Space, John Benjamins, pp.177-202, 2014, 9789027215789. ⟨10.1075/sfsl.68.08cor⟩
Book sections hal-01921989v1
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Indexicals and context: Context-bound pre-requisite(s), ongoing processing and aftermaths of the discourse referring act

Francis Cornish
Marion Fossard and Marie-José Béguelin. Nouvelles perspectives sur l'anaphore: points de vue linguistique, psycholinguistique et acquisitionnel, Peter Lang, pp.5-33, 2014, Sciences pour la communication, 978-3034315456. ⟨10.3726/978-3-0352-0282-3⟩
Book sections hal-01921968v1

Prédication, focalité, topicalité et énoncés thétiques: Une description GFD

Francis Cornish
M. Jadir. Fonctionnalisme et Description Linguistique, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Université Hassan II-Mohammedia, Maroc, pp.137-162, 2011
Book sections hal-00976926v1
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Implicit internal arguments, event structure, predication and anaphoric reference

Francis Cornish
N. Hedberg & R. Zacharski. The Grammar-Pragmatics Interface. Essays in honor of Jeanette K. Gundel, John Benjamins, pp.189-216, 2007
Book sections hal-00967905v1
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Understanding spoken discourse

Francis Cornish
Elsevier Ltd. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd edition), vol 13, Elsevier Ltd., pp.227-230, 2006
Book sections hal-00952132v1
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Discourse Anaphora

Francis Cornish
Keith Brown. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2e édition),, Elsevier Ltd. (Oxford, RU), pp. 631-638, 2006
Book sections hal-00963663v1
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Degrees of indirectness: Two types of implicit referents and their retrieval via unaccented pronouns

Francis Cornish
A. Branco, T. McEnery & R. Mitkov. Anaphora Processing: Linguistic, cognitive and computational modelling, John Benjamins, pp.199-220, 2005
Book sections hal-00967378v1
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Null complements, event structure, predication and anaphora: A Functional Discourse Grammar account

Francis Cornish
J.L. Mackenzie & M.A. Gomez Gonzalez. Studies in Functional Discourse Grammar, Peter Lang, pp.29-56, 2005, 3-03910-696-1
Book sections hal-00967309v1
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A cross-linguistic study of so-called "locative inversion"...

Francis Cornish
C. de Groot & K. Hengeveld. Morphosyntactic Expression in Functional Grammar, Mouton de Gruyter, pp.163-202, 2005, 3-11-018365-X
Book sections hal-00967184v1
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'Focus of attention' in discourse

Francis Cornish
J.L. Mackenzie & M.A. Gomez-Gonzalez. A New Architecture for Functional Grammar, Mouton de Gruyter, pp.117-150, 2004, Functional Grammar Series 24, 3-11-017356-5
Book sections hal-00967212v1