CURRICULUM VITAE

CURRICULUM VITAE
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SANDRA ANNEAR THOMPSON	Spring 2006
Department of Linguistics	tel. 805-893-8216
UC	fax 805-893-7769
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3100

sathomps@linguistics.ucsb.edu

Degrees:

B.A. 1963, Linguistics, The Ohio State University

M.A. 1965, Linguistics, The Ohio State University

Ph.D. 1969, Linguistics, The Ohio State University

Employment:

1965-1966

Instructor of Linguistics, The Ohio State University

Summer 1966

Instructor of English, The Binational Language Center, Taipei, Taiwan

1968-1974

Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles

Summer 1970

Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute, The Ohio State University

1974-1978

Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles

Summer 1976

Associate Professor of Linguistics, Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute, SUNY, Oswego

Summer 1976

Associate Professor of Linguistics, Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute, SUNY, Oswego

1978-1986

Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles

1982-1989

Consultant on discourse, artificial intelligence project on text generation, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California

Summer 1983

Professor of Linguistics, Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute, UCLA

1986-present

Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara

1990-1994

Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara

Summer 1995

Professor of Linguistics, Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute, University of New Mexico

Field Work:

1974-1975

Field research on language acquisition in Mandarin‑speaking children, Taipei, Taiwan

1975-1990

Field research on Wappo, a native California language, Healdsburg, California

April, May, 1978

Field research for reference grammar of Mandarin, Taipei, Taiwan and People's Republic of China

1980-1981

Field research in Chinese dialects in People's Republic of China and Hong Kong

Honors and Awards:

1962	Phi Beta Kappa

1984	Distinguished Teaching Award, Alumni Association, University of California, Los Angeles

Fellowships:

1984-1985

Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study; one‑year fellowship in Wassenaar, The Netherlands, for research in language universals

1988-1989

Guggenheim Fellowship for "Language Universals and Discourse Patterns"

Extramural Grants:

1976-1980

National Science Foundation; for "Language Typology and Syntactic Field Work" (one of five principal investigators)

1977-1978

American Philosophical Society; for field work on Wappo (with Charles N. Li)

1977-1979

U.S. Office of Education; for 'A Reference Grammar of Mandarin Chinese' (with Charles N. Li)

1980-1982

National Science Foundation; for 'A Syntactic Survey of Selected Chinese Dialects' (with Charles N. Li)

1983‑1991

Wenner‑Gren Foundation: for field work on Wappo (with Charles N. Li)

1988-1994

University of California Pacific Rim Research grant; for 'A Comparative Study of Communicative Strategies in Five Pacific Rim Languages' (with Charles N. Li and Patricia M. Clancy)

1989	American Council of Learned Societies travel grant; to attend Symposium on Cognitive Linguistics, Duisburg, Germany.

1992-1995

1994

1994-1996

1996-1998

National Endowment for the Humanities; for 'A Corpus of Spoken American English' (with Wallace Chafe and John W. Du Bois)

Linguistics Data Consortium; for 'Corpus of Spoken American English' (with Wallace Chafe and John W. Du Bois)

Wenner-Gren Foundation; for 'A Reference Grammar of Wappo' (with Charles N. Li)

U.S. Department of Education; for 'Supplement to Mandarin Chinese' (with Charles N. Li)

Editorial Service:

1976-1979

Associate Editor, Language

1977-1980

Associate Editor, North‑Holland Linguistics Series

1977-1997

Associate Editor, Studies in Language

1979-present

Associate Editor, Companion Series, Studies in Language

1980-1984

Associate Editor, Papers in Linguistics

1983-2000

Editorial Board, University of California Publications in Linguistics Series

1986-1993

Editorial Board, Pragmatics

1986-present

Co‑editor, Discourse Perspectives on Grammar Series, John Benjamins Publishers

1988-present

Editorial Board, Pragmatics and Beyond Series, John Benjamins Publishers

1988-present

Editorial Board, Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers' Association Monograph Series

1989-present

Board of Consulting Editors, Cognitive Linguistics

1989-1997

Editorial Board, Text

1992-present

1997-present

Editorial Board, Journal of Pragmatics

Editorial Board, Discourse Studies

Service to Professional Societies:

1981-1982,

1995-1998

Member, Nominating Committee, Linguistic Society of America

1985-1988

Member, Executive Committee, Linguistic Society of America

1987-2003

Member, Consultation Board, International Pragmatics Association

1991-1994

President, International Pragmatics Association

Publications:

Elliott, Dale E., Stanley Legum, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1969. Syntactic Variation as Linguistic Data, In Robert I. Binnick et al., eds., Papers from the Fifth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago: Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago, 52-59.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1969. Review of Paul Kratochvil: The Chinese Language Today, Language 45.2: 432-439.

Thompson, Sandra A. Fall, 1970. Relative Clause Structures and Constraints on Types of Complex Sentences, Working Papers in Linguistics 6, Columbus: Information Science Research Center, Ohio State University, 20-40.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1971. The Deep Structure of Relative Clauses. In Charles J. Fillmore and D. Terence Langendoen, eds., Studies in Linguistic Semantics. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 78-94. Reprinted in Emily Norwood Rando and Donna Jo Napoli, eds., 1979. Syntactic Argumentation. Georgetown: Georgetown University Press, 109-126.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1971. Review of Hans Marchand: The Types and Categories of Present-Day English Word-Formation, Lingua 27: 82-92.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1972. Instead of and Rather Than Clauses in English, Journal of Linguistics 8.2: 237-249.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1972. Resultative Verbs and the Student of Chinese, Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 7.1: 1-10.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1973. Review of Sidney Greenbaum: Studies in English Adverbial Usage, Language 49.2: 489-492.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1973. On Subjectless Gerunds in English, Foundations of Language 9.3: 374-383. Reprinted in Yasui Minoru, ed., 1975. Kaigai Eigogaku Ronsoo (Anthology of Articles in English Linguistics Abroad), Tokyo: Eichosha Publishing Co., 1-14.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1973. Resultative Verb Compounds in Mandarin Chinese, Language 49.2: 361-379. Also in Shou‑hsin Teng, ed., 1985. Readings in Chinese Syntax, Taipei: Student Book Company, 221-244.

Thompson, Sandra A. February 1973. Transitivity and Some Problems with the Ba Construction in Mandarin Chinese, Studies in East Asian Syntax, UCLA Working Papers in Syntax #3, and Journal of Chinese Linguistics 1.2: 208-221. Also in Shou‑hsin Teng, ed., 1985. Readings in Chinese Syntax, Taipei: Student Book Company, 77-93.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1973. Serial Verb Constructions in Mandarin Chinese: Co-ordination or Subordination?, You Take the High Node and I'll Take the Low Node: Papers from the Comparative Syntax Festival. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, 96-103.

Hooper, Joan, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1973. On the Applicability of Root Transformations, Linguistic Inquiry 4.4: 465-491. Reprinted in Yasui Minoru, ed., 1975, Kaigai Eigogaku Ronsoo (Anthology of Articles in English Linguistics Abroad), Tokyo: Eichosha Publishing Co., 112-164.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1974. Comments on P. Satyanarayana's "A Proposal Concerning the Revision of the Phrase‑structure Component", International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics 3.2: 364-367.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1974. Review of Cartier: Les Verbes Resultatifs en Chinois Moderne, Journal of Chinese Linguistics 2.1: 105-109.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1974. An Explanation of Word Order Change: SVO --> SOV, Foundations of Language 12: 201-214.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1974. A Linguistic Discussion of the "Co-verb" in Chinese Grammar, Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association 9.3: 109-119.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1974. Co-verbs in Mandarin Chinese: Verbs or Prepositions?, Journal of Chinese Linguistics 2.3: 257-278.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1974. Historical Change of Word Order: A Case Study in Chinese and its Implications. In C.J.M. Anderson and C. Jones, eds., Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co., vol. A: 199-217.

Thompson, Sandra A., and Carol Lord, eds. November 1974. Approaches to the Lexicon, UCLA Papers in Syntax #6, Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1975. On the Issue of Productivity in the Lexicon, Kritikon Litterarum 4: 332-349.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1975. The Semantic Function of Word Order in Chinese. In Charles N. Li, ed., Word Order and Word Order Change, Austin: University of Texas Press, 163-195.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1975. The 'Paratactic Relative Clause' in Mandarin Chinese. Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast. Honolulu: University of Hawaii, Department of East Asian Languages, 1-8.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1976. Review of Vivian Alleton: Les Adverbes en Chinois Moderne, Journal of the American Oriental Society 96.2: 343-345.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1976. The Meaning and Structure of Complex Sentences with -zhe in Mandarin Chinese, Journal of the American Oriental Society 96.4: 512-519.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1976. Subject and Topic: A New Typology of Language. In Charles N. Li, ed., Subject and Topic, New York: Academic Press, 458-489. Also in Teng, Shou-hsin, ed., 1985. Readings in Chinese Syntax, Taipei: Student Book Company, 355-385.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1976. On the Issue of Word Order in Synchronic Grammar: A Case Against 'Movement Transformations', Lingua 39.3: 169-181. Also in Teng, Shou‑hsin, ed.,1985. Readings in Chinese Syntax, Taipei: Student Book Company, 509-520.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1976. Development of the Causative in Mandarin Chinese: Interaction of Diachronic Processes in Syntax. In Masayoshi Shibatani, ed., The Grammar of Causative Constructions, New York: Academic Press, 477-492. Also in Teng, Shou‑hsin, ed., 1984. Readings in Chinese Syntax, Taipei: Student Book Company, 51-66.

Kirsner, Robert S., Charles N. Li, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1976. The Role of Pragmatic Inference in Semantics: A Study of Sensory Verb Complements in English, Glossa 10.2: 200-240. Reprinted in Yasui Minoru, ed., 1978. Kaigai Eigogaku Ronsoo (Anthology of Articles in English Linguistics Abroad), Tokyo: Eichosha Publishing Co., 144-190.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1976. Strategies for Signalling Grammatical Relations in Wappo, Papers from the 12th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago: University of Chicago, 450-457.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1977. Review of Vivian Alleton: Grammaire du Chinois, Journal of the American Oriental Society 97.2: 222-224.

Silva, Georgette, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1977. On the Syntax and Semantics of Adjectives with 'it' Subjects and Infinitival Complements in English, Studies in Language 1.1: 109-126. Reprinted in Yasui Minoru, ed., 1979. Kaigai Eigogaku Ronsoo (Anthology of Articles in English Linguistics Abroad), Tokyo: Eichosha Publishing Co., 173-197.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1977. The Acquisition of Tone in Mandarin-Speaking Children, Journal of Child Language 4.2: 185-199.

Grosu, Alexander, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1977. Constraints on the Distribution of NP Clauses, Language 53.1: 104-151.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1977. Review of Teng, Shou-hsin: Semantic Study of Transitivity Relations in Chinese, Language 53.2: 498.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1977. The Causative in Wappo: A Special Case of Doubling, Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley: University of California Press, 175-181.

Li, Charles N., Jesse O. Sawyer, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1977. Subject and Word Order in Wappo, International Journal of American Linguistics 43.2: 85-100.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1977. A Mechanism for the Development of Copula Morphemes. In Charles N. Li, ed., Mechanisms of Syntactic Change, Austin: University of Texas Press, 419-444.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1978. Modern English from a Typological Point of View: Some Implications of the Function of Word Order, Linguistische Berichte 54: 19-35.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1978. Relativization Strategies in Wappo. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley: University of California Press, 106-113.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1978. An Exploration of Mandarin Chinese. In W.P. Lehmann, ed., The Typology of Language, Austin: University of Texas Press, 223-266.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1978. Tone Acquisition. In V. Fromkin, ed., Tone: A Linguistic Survey, New York: Academic Press, 271-284.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1978. Grammatical Relations in Languages without Grammatical Signals. In W. Dressler, ed., Proceedings of the XIIth International Congress of Linguists, 687-691.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1979. Third-Person Pronouns and Zero-anaphora in Chinese Discourse. In Talmy Givon ed., Discourse and Syntax, New York: Academic Press, 311-335.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1979. Chinese: Dialect Variations and Language Reform. In Timothy Shopen, ed., Languages and Their Status, Cambridge, MA: Winthrop Publishers, Inc., 295-335. Book reprinted 1987. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1979. The Pragmatics of Two Types of Yes-No Questions in Mandarin and its Universal Implications. Papers from the 15th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 197-206.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1980. Synchrony and Diachrony: The Mandarin Comparative, Folia Historica Linguistica I.2: 231-250.

Hopper, Paul J., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1980. Transitivity in Grammar and Discourse, Language 56.2: 251-299.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1981. Mandarin Chinese: A Functional Reference Grammar, Berkeley: University of California Press. Translated into Chinese as Hanyu Yufa. 1983. Huang Shuan‑fan, trans., Taipei: Crane Publishing Co.

Li, Charles N., R. McMillan Thompson, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1982. The Discourse Basis of the Perfect Aspect: The Mandarin Particle le. In Paul J. Hopper, ed., Tense and Aspect, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 19-44.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1982. The Gulf between Spoken and Written Language: A Case Study in Chinese. In Deborah Tannen, ed., Spoken and Written Language, Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 77-88.

Hopper, Paul J., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1982. Studies in Transitivity (Syntax and Semantics, Vol. 15), New York: Academic Press.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1983. Grammar and Discourse: The English Detached Participial Clause. In Flora Klein, ed., Discourse Perspectives on Syntax, New York: Academic Press, 43-65.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1983. The Category 'Auxiliary' in Mandarin Chinese. In Tang, Ting-chi, Robert L. Cheng, and Ying-‑che Li, eds., Studies in Chinese Syntax and Semantics, Taipei: The Student Book Co., 113-126.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1983. A Grammatical Description of Xuwen: A Colloquial Dialect of Lei-zhou Peninsula, Part I: Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, Vol. XII.1: 3-21; Part II: Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 1983, Vol. XII.2: 119-148.

Hopper, Paul J., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1984. The Discourse Basis for Lexical Categories in Universal Grammar, Language 60.4: 703-752. Reprinted in Bas Aarts, David Denison, Evelien Keizer, and Gergana Popova, eds., 2004. Fuzzy Grammar, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 293-308.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1984. Questions in Mandarin. In W. Chisholm, ed., Interrogativity, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 47-617.

Haiman, John, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1984. 'Subordination' in Universal Grammar. In Claudia Brugmann and Monica Macauley, eds., Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley: University of California Press, 510-523.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1984. Bilingual Dictionaries and the Notion of 'Lexical Categories' in Chinese. In R.R.K. Hartmann, ed., LEXeter '83 Proceedings: Papers from the International Conference on Lexicography, Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 282-288.

Hopper, Paul J., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1985. The Iconicity of the Universal Categories 'Noun' and 'Verb'. In John Haiman, ed., Iconicity in Language, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 151-193.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1985. Grammar and Written Discourse: Initial vs. Final Purpose Clauses in English, Text 5.l/2: 55-84.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1985. Perfectivity in Mandarin. In G. Thurgood, J.A. Matisoff, and D. Bradley, eds., Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area: the State of the Art, (Pacific Linguistics C-87), Canberra: Australian National University Press, 310-323.

Hopper, Paul J., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1985. The Uses of Prototypes in the Study of Language Universals. In Hansjakob Seiler, ed., Proceedings of the Gummersbach Conference on "Language Invariants and Mental Representations", Tubingen: Gunter Narr, 238-244.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1985. 'Subordination' in Formal and Informal Discourse. In Deborah Schiffrin, ed., Meaning, Form, and Use in Context: Linguistic Applications (1984, Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics), Georgetown: Georgetown University Press, 85-94.

Mann, William C., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1985. Assertions from Discourse Structure, Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 245-258. Also available as Information Sciences Institute Research Report 85-155, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695.

Comrie, Bernard, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1985. Lexical Nominalizations. In Timothy Shopen, ed., Language Typology and Syntactic Description, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 349-398.

Longacre, Robert E., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1985. Adverbial Clauses. In Timothy Shopen, ed., Language Typology and Syntactic Description, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 171-234.

Mann, William C., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1986. Relational Propositions in Discourse, Discourse Processes 9.1: 57-90. Also available as Information Sciences Institute Research Report 83-115, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695.

Ford, Cecilia, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1986. Conditionals in Discourse: A Text-based Study from English. In Elizabeth C. Traugott, Alice ter Meulen, Judy S. Reilly, and Charles A. Ferguson, eds., On Conditionals, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 353-372.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1986. Review of Anna-Brita Stenstrom: Questions and Responses in English Conversation, Language 62.1: 213-214.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1986. Review of Jessica Wirth, ed., Beyond the Sentence: Discourse and Sentential Form, Language and Society 15: 407-410.

Koide, Yuka, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1986. Iconicity and "Indirect Objects" in English, Journal of Pragmatics 11: 399-406.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1987. Chinese. In Bernard Comrie, ed., The World's Major Languages, New York: Oxford University Press, 811-833.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1987. 'Subordination' and Narrative Event Structure. In Russell Tomlin, ed., Coherence and Grounding in Discourse, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 435-454.

Mann, William C., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1987. Rhetorical Structure Theory: A Theory of Text Organization. Available as Information Sciences Institute Research Report 87-190, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695.

Mann, William C., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1987. Antithesis: A Study in Clause Combining and Discourse Structure. In Ross Steele and Terry Threadgold, eds., Language Topics: Essays in Honour of Michael Halliday, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, Vol. II, 359-381. Also available as Information Sciences Institute Research Report 87-171, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA, 90292-6695.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1987. The Passive in English: A Discourse Perspective. In Robert Channon and Linda Shockey, eds., In Honor of Ilse Lehiste: Ilse Lehiste Puhendusteos, Dordrecht: Foris (Netherlands Phonetic Archives 6), 497-511.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1987. 'Concessive' as a Discourse Relation in Expository Written English. In Brian D. Joseph and Arnold M. Zwicky, ed., A Festschrift for Ilse Lehiste, Working Papers in Linguistics No. 35, Columbus: Ohio State University, 64-73.

Mann, William C., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1987. A Discourse View of Concession in Written English. In Scott DeLancey and Russell Tomlin, eds., Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting of the Pacific Linguistics Conference, Eugene: University of Oregon, 435-447.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1987. Review of Mark Durie: A Grammar of Acehnese on the Basis of a Dialect of North Aceh, Language 63.4: 919-920.

Mann, William C., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1987. Rhetorical Structure Theory: A Framework for the Analysis of Texts, Papers in Pragmatics 1.1: 79-105. Also available as Information Sciences Institute Research Report 87-185, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695.

Mann, William C., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1987. Rhetorical Structure Theory: Description and Construction of Text Structures. In Gerard Kempen, ed., Natural Language Generation: New Results in Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, and Linguistics, Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 85-95. Also available as Information Sciences Institute Research Report 87-174, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695.

Thompson, Sandra A., and Hyo Sang Lee, eds. 1987. Korean: Papers and Discourse Data, Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics Vol. 1, Santa Barbara: University of California, Santa Barbara.

Matthiessen, Christian, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1988. The Structure of Discourse and 'Subordination'. In John Haiman and Sandra A. Thompson, eds., Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 275-329. Also available as Information Sciences Institute Research Report 87-183, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695.

Mann, William C., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1988. Rhetorical Structure Theory: Towards a Functional Theory of Text Organization, Text 8.3: 243-281.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1988. A Discourse Approach to the Cross-Linguistic Category 'Adjective'. In John Hawkins, ed., Explaining Language Universals, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 167-185; and 1989. Roberta Corrigan, Fred Eckman, and Michael Noonan, eds., Linguistic Categorization, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 245-265.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1988. Review of Hong Chai-Song: Syntaxe des verbes de mouvement en coréen contemporain, Language 64.2: 428-9.

Thompson, Sandra A., and John Haiman, eds. 1988. Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Thompson, Sandra A., ed. 1988. Discourse and Grammar, Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 2, Santa Barbara: University of California, Santa Barbara.

Lee, Hyo Sang, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1989. A Discourse Account of the Korean Accusative Marker. Studies in Language 13.1: 105-128; Also in Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics 3, Santa Barbara: Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Fox, Barbara A., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1990. A Discourse Explanation of the Grammar of Relative Clauses in English Conversation, Language 66.2: 297-316.

Fox, Barbara A., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1990. On Formulating Reference: An Interactional Approach to Relative Clauses in English Conversation, Papers in Pragmatics 4:1/2: 183-195.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1990. Information Flow and 'Dative Shift' in English. In Jerrold Edmondson, Katherine Feagin, and Peter Mühlhäusler, eds., Development and Diversity: Linguistic Variation across Time and Space, Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 239-253.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1990. Review of James Monaghan, ed.: Grammar in the Construction of Texts, Language 66.1: 200-201.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1990. Review of Christine Cheepen: On the Predicatability of Informal Conversation, Language 66.3: 629-30.

Thompson, Sandra A., and Anthony J. Mulac. 1991. A Quantitative Perspective on the Grammaticization of Epistemic Parentheticals in English. In Elizabeth Traugott and Bernd Heine, eds., Grammaticalization II, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 313-339.

Mentis, Michelle, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1991. Discourse: A Means for Understanding Normal and Disordered Language. In Tanya M. Gallagher, ed., Pragmatics of Language: Clinical Practice Issues, San Diego: Singular Publishing Group, 199-227.

Tao, Hongyin, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1991. English Backchannels in Mandarin Conversation: A Case Study of Superstratum Pragmatic 'Interference', Journal of Pragmatics 16.2: 61-75.

Thompson, Sandra A., and Anthony J. Mulac. 1991. The Discourse Conditions for the Use of Complementizer that in Conversational English, Journal of Pragmatics 15: 237-51.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1991. On Addressing Functional Explanations in Linguistics, Language and Communication 11.1/2: 93-96.

Thompson, Sandra A., and Patricia M. Clancy, eds. 1991. Studies in Asian Discourse and Grammar, Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics Vol. 3, Santa Barbara: University of California, Santa Barbara.

Chappell, Hilary, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1992. The Semantics and Pragmatics of Associative DE in Mandarin Discourse. Cahiers Linguistiques Asie Orientale XXI, 1992, 199-229.

Chafe, Wallace, John Du Bois, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1992. A Proposal for a Corpus of Spoken American English. In Karin Aijmer and Bengt Altenberg, eds., English Corpus Linguistics: Studies in Honor of Jan Svartvik, London: Longman, 64-82.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1992. Functional Grammar. In William Bright, ed., International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 37-40.

Mann, William C., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1992. Relational Discourse Structure: A Comparison of Approaches to Structuring Text by 'Contrast'. In Shin Ja Hwang and William R. Merrifield, eds., Language in Context: Essays for Robert E. Longacre, Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Texas at Arlington, 19-45.

Thompson, Sandra A., and William C. Mann, eds. 1992. Discourse Description: Diverse Analyses of a Fund Raising Text, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Mann, William C., Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1992. Rhetorical Structure Theory and Text Analysis. In William C. Mann and Sandra A. Thompson, eds., Discourse Description: Diverse Analyses of a Fund Raising Text, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 39-78.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1993. The Wappo Third-person Co-referential Pronoun. In Anthony Mattina and Timothy Montler, eds., American Indian Linguistics and Ethnography in Honor of Laurence C. Thompson, University of Montana Occasional Papers in Linguistics 10: 477-487.

Abelen, Eric, Gisela Redeker, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1993. The Rhetorical Structure of US-American and Dutch Fund-Raising Letters, Text 13: 323-350.

Hopper, Paul J., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1993. Language Universals, Discourse Pragmatics, and Semantics, Language and its Cognitive Interpretation, In Philip W. Davis, ed., special issue of Language Sciences 15.4: 357-376.

Thompson, Sandra A., and Paul J. Hopper, eds. 1994. 'Discourse and Grammar', special issue of Text 14.4.

Ono, Tsuyoshi, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1994. Unattached NPs in English Conversation. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley: University of California Press, 402-419.

Tao, Hongyin, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1994. The Discourse and Grammar Interface: Preferred Clause Structure in Mandarin Conversation, Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, XXIX, 1-34. Translated into Chinese and published in Guowai Yuyanxue [Linguistics Abroad], 4, 1995.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1994. Some Issues in Chinese Functionalism: An Interview with Sandra A. Thompson, by Chiung-chih Huang, Issues in Applied Linguistics 5.2: 409-422.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1994. Review of Peter Auer and Aldo Di Luzio, eds.: The Contextualization of Language, American Anthropologist 96.1: 168-9.

Li, Charles N., and Sandra A. Thompson. 1994. On 'Middle Voice Verbs' in Mandarin. In Barbara Fox and Paul Hopper, eds., Voice: Form and Function, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 231-246.

Thompson, Sandra A., Werner Abraham, and Talmy Givón, eds. 1995. Discourse Grammar and Typology: Papers in Honor of John W.M. Verhaar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Thompson, Sandra A., and Masayoshi Shibatani, eds. 1995. Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Thompson, Sandra A., and Masayoshi Shibatani, eds. 1995. Grammatical Constructions: Their Form and Meaning. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bradac, James J., Anthony J. Mulac, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1995. Men's and Women's Use of Intensifiers and Hedges in Problem-Solving Interaction: Molar and Molecular Analyses, Research in Language and Social Interaction 28.2: 93-116.

Ono, Tsuyoshi, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1995. The Dynamic Nature of Conceptual Structure Building: Evidence from Conversation. In Adele Goldberg, ed., Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language, Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 25-34; Reprinted in Eija Ventola, ed., The New Courant, 4: 25-34, Department of English, University of Helsinki.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1995. The Iconicity of 'Dative Shift' in English: Considerations from Information Flow in Discourse. In Marge E. Landsberg, ed., Syntactic Iconicity and Freezes: The Human Dimension, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 155-175.

Ono, Tsuyoshi, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1995. What Can Conversation Tell us about Syntax? In Philip W. Davis, ed., Alternative Linguistics: Descriptive and Theoretical Modes, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 213-271. pdf

Ono, Tsuyoshi, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1995. The Nature of Conceptual Structure Building: Evidence from Conversation. In Eija Ventola, ed., The New Courant, 4: 25-34, Department of English, University of Helsinki; Also in Adele Goldberg, ed., Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language, 1996, Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 391-399.

Clancy, Patricia M., Ryoko Suzuki, Hongyin Tao, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1996. The Conversational Use of Reactive Tokens in English, Japanese, and Mandarin, Journal of Pragmatics 26.1: 355-387. pdf

Ford, Cecilia E., Barbara A. Fox, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1996. Practices in the Construction of Turns: The 'TCU' Revisited, Pragmatics 6.3: 427-454.

Ono, Tsuyoshi, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1996. Interaction and Syntax in the Structure of Conversational Discourse. In Eduard Hovy and Donia Scott, eds., Discourse Processing: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 67-96.

Thompson, Sandra A., Elinor Ochs, and Emanuel Schegloff, eds. 1996. Interaction and Grammar: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Schegloff, Emanuel, Elinor Ochs, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1996. Introduction. In Elinor Ochs, Emanuel Schegloff, and Sandra A. Thompson, eds., Interaction and Grammar, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1-51.

Ford, Cecilia, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1996. Interactional Units in Conversation: Syntactic, Intonational, and Pragmatic Resources for Turn Management. In Elinor Ochs, Emanuel Schegloff, and Sandra A. Thompson, eds., Interaction and Grammar, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 134-184. pdf

Biq, Yung-O, James H-Y Tai, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1996. Recent developments in Functional and Discourse Approaches to Chinese. In James C.T. Huang and Audrey Li, eds., New Horizons in Chinese Linguistics, Boston: Kluwer, 97-140.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1997. Discourse Motivations for the Core-Oblique Distinction as a Language Universal. In Akio Kamio, ed., Directions in Functional Linguistics, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 59-82. pdf

Thompson, Sandra A. 1997. Foreword to Jerome Packard, ed., New Approaches to Chinese Word Formation, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, ix-x.

Thompson, Sandra A., Joan Bybee, and John Haiman, eds. 1997. Essays on Language Function and Language Type. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Ono, Tsuyoshi, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1997. Deconstructing 'Zero Anaphora', Proceedings of the Twenty-third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley: University of California Press, 481-491. pdf

Bybee, Joan, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1997. Three Frequency Effects in Syntax, Proceedings of the Twenty-third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley: University of California Press, 378-388.

Thompson, Sandra A. 1998. A Discourse Explanation for the Cross-linguistic Differences in the Grammar of Interrogation and Negation. In Anna Siewierska and Jae Jung Song, eds., Case, Typology, and Grammar, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 309-341. pdf

Ono Tsuyoshi, Ryoko Suzuki, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1999. Is Japanese ga a 'Subject Marker'?: Evidence from Conversation, Proceedings from the 25^th Annual LACUS Forum, Fullerton, CA: The Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, 269-276.

Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth, and Sandra A. Thompson. 1999. On the Concessive Relation in Conversational English. In Fritz-Wilhelm Neumann and Sabine Schuelting, eds., Anglistentag 1998 Erfurt: Proceedings, Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 29-39.

Ono Tsuyoshi, Ryoko Suzuki, and Sandra A. Thompson. 2000. The Pragmatic Nature of the So-called Subject Marker ga in Japanese: Evidence from Conversation, Discourse Studies 2.1: 55-84. pdf

Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth, and Sandra A. Thompson. 2000. Concessive Patterns in Conversation. In Bernd Kortmann and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, eds., Cause, Condition, Concession, and Contrast: Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 381-410. pdf

Thompson, Sandra A. 2000. Property Concepts. In Geert Booij, Christian Lehmann, and Joachim Mugdan, eds., Morphology: A Handbook on Inflection and Word Formation, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1111-1118.

Thompson, Sandra A., and Paul J. Hopper. 2001. Transitivity, Clause Structure, and Argument Structure: Evidence from Conversation. In Joan L. Bybee and Paul J. Hopper, eds., Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 27-60. pdf

Mann, William C., and Sandra A. Thompson. 2001. "Deux perspectives sur la théorie de la structure rhétorique (RST)" [Two Views of Rhetorical Structure Theory], Verbum 2001 23.1: 9-29.

Ford, Cecilia E., Barbara A. Fox, and Sandra A. Thompson. 2002. Introduction. In Cecilia E. Ford, Barbara A. Fox, and Sandra A. Thompson, eds., The Language of Turn and Sequence, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3-13.

Ford, Cecilia E., Barbara A. Fox, and Sandra A. Thompson. 2002. Constituency and the Grammar of Turn Increments. In Cecilia E. Ford, Barbara A. Fox, and Sandra A. Thompson, eds., The Language of Turn and Sequence, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 14-38.

Ford, Cecilia E., Barbara A. Fox, and Sandra A. Thompson, eds. 2002. The Language of Turn and Sequence. New York: Oxford University Press.

Ford, Cecilia E., Barbara A. Fox, and Sandra A. Thompson. 2002. Social Interaction and Grammar. In Michael Tomasello, ed., The New Psychology of Language, Vol. II, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 119-143.

Thompson, Sandra A. 2002. "Object complements" and Conversation: Towards a Realistic Account, Studies in Language 26.1: 125-164. pdf [Translated as: Hacia una explicación de los "complementos objeto" y la conversación, in Mercedes Sedano, Adriana Bolivar y Martha Shiro, eds., 2006, Haciendo Lingüística Homenaje a Paola Bentivoglio. Caracas: Universidad Central de Venezuela.]

Thompson, Sandra A. 2003. Functional Grammar. In William Frawley, ed., Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ono, Tsuyoshi, and Sandra A. Thompson. 2004. Japanese (w)atashi/ore/boku 'I': They're Not Just Pronouns, Cognitive Linguistics 14.4: 321-347. pdf

Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth, and Sandra A. Thompson. 2005. A Linguistic Practice for Retracting Overstatements: Concessive Repair. In Auli Hakulinen and Margret Selting, eds., Syntax and Lexis in Conversation: Studies on the use of linguistic resources in talk-in-interaction, 257-288, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pdf

Thompson, Sandra A., and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen. 2005. The Clause as a Locus of Grammar and Interaction, Discourse Studies 7.4-5: 481-505. [Reprinted in Language and Linguistics 6.4: 807-837.] pdf

Mulder, Jean and Sandra A. Thompson. 2006. The grammaticization of but as a final particle in English conversation. In Keith Allan, ed., Selected papers from the 2005 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. http://www.als.asn.au.

Thompson, Sandra A., Joseph Sung-Yul Park, and Charles N. Li. 2006. A Reference Grammar of Wappo. Berkeley: University of California Press. (Available online at: http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucpress/ucpl/vol_138)

Fox, Barbara A. and Sandra A. Thompson. 2007. Relative clauses in English conversation: relativizers, frequency, and the notion of 'construction'. Studies in Language 31.2: 293-326.

Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth, and Sandra A. Thompson. To appear. 'You know it's funny': Eine Neubetrachtung der 'Extraposition' im Englischen. ['You know, it's funny': English 'extraposition' revisited]. In Susanne Guenthner and Wolfgang Imo, eds., Konstruktionen in der Interaktion. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Hopper, Paul and Sandra A. Thompson. To appear. Projectability and Clause Combining in Interaction. In Laury, Ritva, ed., Crosslinguistic studies of clause combining: the multifunctionality of conjunctions. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Mulder, Jean and Sandra A. Thompson. To appear. The grammaticization of but as a final particle in English conversation. In Laury, Ritva, ed., Crosslinguistic studies of clause combining: the multifunctionality of conjunctions. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth and Sandra A. Thompson. To appear. On assessing situations and events in conversation: ‘Extraposition’ and its relatives. Discourse Studies.

Thompson, Sandra A., Robert E. Longacre, and Shin Ja Hwang. 2007. Adverbial Clauses. In Timothy Shopen, ed., Language Typology and Syntactic Description, Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 237-300.

Comrie, Bernard, and Sandra A. Thompson. 2007. Lexical Nominalization. In Timothy Shopen, ed., Language Typology and Syntactic Description, Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 334-381.

Ono, Tsuyoshi and Sandra A. Thompson. To appear. Fixedness in Japanese adjectives in conversation: Toward a new understanding of a lexical (‘part-of-speech’) category. In Corrigan, Roberta, Edith Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali, and Kathleen Wheatley, eds., Formulaic language. Amsterdam: Benjamins.