This is the short story of my long, 20 year search for a stable academic home. There is a lot of success and a lot of pain here, and no happy ending.

While early accounts of idiomatic expressions proposed that they are compositional or else directly retrievable from memory, the multi-determined view posited that idiom comprehension depends on obser...

Author(s): Larralde, Cecile; Moyer, Morgan; Pouscoulous, Nausicaa; Noveck, Ira | Abstract: Connectives such as and, but, and so conjoin two elements of discourse in characteristic ways. While highligh...

The discourse connectives but and so trigger specific kinds of inferences, which are characterizable as contrastive and causal, respectively. Inspired…

WASHINGTON—Warning that Americans should brace themselves for an economic “period of transition,” President Donald Trump told reporters Monday that a recession would be an unfortunate but necessary st...

Expatriation was nonetheless the making of me: liberated me, humbled me, revealed to me who I was and what I wanted my life to be.

14 Discourse markers and psycholinguistic processing was published in Manual of Discourse Markers in Romance on page 413.