Selected Publications

 

(not including conference papers. For a full list click here)

 


 

Books:

 

§          Lavid, Julia, Arús, Jorge, and Zamorano, Juan R. (in preparation) Systemic-Functional Grammar of Spanish: a Contrastive Account with English. London: Equinox.

 

§          Carretero, M., Hidalgo, L., Lavid, J., Martinez Caro, E., Neff, J., y Sánchez-Pardo (eds.) (2006) A Pleasure of Life in Words: A Festschrift for Angela Downing. Madrid: Universidad Complutense. (soon also available in electronic format).

 

§          Lavid, Julia (ed.) (in press) Nuevas tecnologías aplicadas al estudio funcional de la lengua: materiales para una docencia de calidad en el campus virtual de la Universidad Complutense. Madrid: Editorial Complutense.

 

§          Butler, C. S., Hidalgo, R., y Julia Lavid. (eds.) (2007) Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse: In honour of Angela Downing. Studies in Language Companion Series 85. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (XXIV, 468 pp. + index).

 

§          Lavid, Julia (2005) Lenguaje y nuevas tecnologías: nuevas perspectivas, métodos y herramientas para el lingüista del siglo XXI. Madrid: Cátedra (Colección de Lingüística). (Reviewed by Prof. Christopher Butler in the journal Atlantis)

 

§          Carretero, M., Herrera, H., Kristiansen, G. y  Julia Lavid (eds.) (2004) Estudios de Lingüística aplicada a la comunicación. Madrid: Universidad Complutense.

 

§          Lavid, Julia (1988) Lenguage y Conciencia en la obra de Walker Percy. Madrid: Editorial Complutense.

 

§          Lavid, Julia (ed. lit.) (1987, 1st edition; 2004, 6th edition) Bartleby, Benito Cereno y Billy Budd de Herman Melville. (Edición crítica, traducción y notas eruditas). Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra. ISBN: 8437606543

 

 



Book chapters and articles in edited collections

 

§          Lavid, J. (in press) “The grammar of emotion in English and Spanish: a corpus-based study” In Eija Ventola and Carys Jones (eds.) Field, Ideation & Experiential Representation: from Language to Multimodality. London: Equinox.

 

§          Teruya, Z., Akerejola, E., Caffarel, A., Lavid, J., Matthiessen, C., Petersen, U.H., Smedegaard, F., Andersen, T.H. and P. Patpong (in press) “A systemic-functional approach to the typology of Mood,” In J. Webster, C. Matthiessen & R. Hasan (eds.) Continuing Discourse on Language: A Functional Perspective. London & New York: Equinox.

 

§          Lavid, J. (forthcoming) “Contrastive patterns of mental transitivity in English and Spanish: a student-centred corpus-based study”. In Hidalgo, Encarnación, Luis Quereda and Juan Santana (Eds.) Corpora in the Foreign Language Classroom (Language and Computers Series). Amsterdam/New York : Rodopi. (362 pp. Hb: 978-90-420-2142-6 / 90-420-2142-X)

 

§          Lavid, J. (2007) “Global and local attention in conversation: the case of task-scheduling dialogues,” In Butler, C., Hidalgo, R., and Lavid, J. (eds.) Functional perspectives on grammar and discourse:In honour of Angela Downing. Studies in Language Companion Series 85. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (XXIV, 468 pp. + index).

 

§          Lavid, J. and Jorge Arús (2006) “Processes of consciousness in English and Spanish: theoretical and applied perspectives,” In Carretero, M., Hidalgo, L., Lavid, J, Martinez Caro, E., Neff, J., and Sánchez-Pardo (eds.) A Pleasure of Life in Words: a Festschrift for Angela Downing. Madrid: Universidad Complutense.

 

§          Lavid, J. y J.R. Zamorano (2005) “Generadores automáticos y gramática funcional inglesa : una experiencia de integración en el aula virtual” In Merino, J., Fernández-Valmayor, A., Fernández-Pamipillón, A. (eds.) Cómo integrar investigación y docencia en el CV-UCM. Madrid: Editorial Complutense, 327-335. ISBN 84-7491-787-5.

 

§          Lavid, J. (2004a) “Developing a web-based course for the conventional English grammar classroom: issues in planning and desig,” In P. Zemliansky  y K. St Amant (eds.) Internet-Based Workplace Communication: Industry and Academic Applications. Idea Group Inc. Publishing: Hershey, PA (USA), 157-179.

 

§          Lavid, J (2004b) “Building textual resources for multilingual generation: a functional typological approach” In D. Banks (ed.) Text and Texture: systemic functional viewpoints on the nature and structure of text. Paris: L’Harmattan, 277-299. ISBN:2-7475-5812-6

 

§          Lavid, J. (2004c)Lingüística inglesa y virtualización en un contexto presencial : reflexiones en torno a una docencia de calidad” In Merino, J., Fernández-Valmayor, A., Fernández-Pamipillón, A. (eds.) En apoyo del aprendizaje en la universidad : hacia el espacio europeo de educación superior, Madrid: Editorial Complutense, 102-107. ISBN 84-7491-774-3.

 

§          Lavid, J. (2001) "Using bilingual corpora for the construction of contrastive generation grammars: issues and problems,” in Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics 2001 Conference, UCREL Technical Papers No. 13.  P. Rayson, A. Wilson, T. McEnery, A. Hardie, S. Khoja (eds.) Lancaster University (2001).

 

§          Lavid, J. (2000a) "Text types, Chaining Strategies and Theme in a Multilingual Corpus: a Cross-Linguistic Comparison for Text Generation, ” in J. Bregazzi, A. Downing, . López, J. Neff. (eds.) Estudios de Filología Inglesa: Homenaje a Jack White. Madrid: Editorial Complutense.

 

§          Lavid, J. (2000b) "Cross-cultural variation in multilingual instructions: a study of speech act realisation patterns," in Discourse and Community: Doing Functional Linguistics, Eija Ventola (ed.),  Tübingen: Günter Narr Verlag. ISBN13: 9783823349440

 

§          Lavid, J. (2000c) "Contextual Constraints on Thematization in Written Discourse: an Empirical Study," in Formal Aspects of Context, P. Bonzon, M. Cavalcanti, R. Nossum (eds.), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

 

 

§          de Smedt, K., Black, B., van den Bosch, A., Lavid, J., P. McKevitt and Andy Way (1999) "European Studies on Computational Linguistics," in Computing in Humanities Education: A European Perspective. K. de Smedt et al. (eds.), University of Bergen.

 

§          Lavid, J. (1998) "The Role of Corpora for Linguistic and Computational Studies: Thematization as an Example," in IV Jornades de corpus lingüístics: els corpus en la recerca semàntica i pragmàtica. M. T. Turell, E. Vallduví (eds.) Barcelona: Publicaciones del Instituto de Lingüística Aplicada (IULA), Universidad Pompeu Fabra. ISBN: 84-477-0649-4.

 

§          Downing, Angela and Julia Lavid (1998) “Information progression strategies in administrative forms: A cross-linguistic study”. In Linguistic Choice across Genres: Variation in Spoken and Written English, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 158. Sánchez-Macarro, A. and R. Carter (eds.), Amsterdam: John  Benjamins.

 

§          Lavid, Julia (1996) "Generating Thematic Choices for Multilingual Text Generation, " in Book of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC-ACH '96). A. Lindebjerg, E. Ore and O. Reigem (eds.), Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, 183-188.

 

§          Hovy, E. , Lavid, J., Maier, E., Paris, and C., Mittal.(1992) "Employing Knowledge Resources in a New Text Planner Architecture," in Aspects of Automated Natural  Language Generation (Lectures Notes in Artificial  Intelligence) R. Dale, E. Hovy, D. Rösner, O. Stock (eds.), Berlin:  Springer-Verlag.

 

§          Lavid, J. (1991) "Semantic Options in the Transitivity System: An Example of Textual Analysis," in Approaches to the Analysis  of Literary discourse, Eija Ventola (ed.) Abö: Abö Akademi.

 

 


 

Articles in refereed journals

 

§          Lavid, Julia and Jorge Arús Hita (2004a) “Nuclear transitivity in English and Spanish: A contrastive functional study”. Functional Linguistics and Contrastive Description, Special issue of Languages in Contrast 4:1 (2002/03) Edited by Kristin Davidse and Liesbet Heyvaert, 75–103.

 

§          Lavid, Julia and Maite Taboada (2004b) “Stylistic Differences in Document Design across Languages in Europe: A Cross-Linguistic Characterization,” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 34(1-2). 43-65.

 

§          Taboada, María Teresa and Julia Lavid (2003a) “Rhetorical and thematic patterns in scheduling dialogues: A generic characterization”. Functions of Language 10:2, 147–178.

 

§          Lavid, J. (2003b) “Discurso, semántica y gramática: la construcción de las identidades sociales en el diálogo” Revista Española de Lingüística 33 (2), Julio-Diciembre 2003, 345-371.

 

§          Arús, J. y Julia Lavid (2001) "The grammar of relational processes in English and Spanish: Implications for machine translation and multilingual generation," Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense Vol. 9, pp. 61-79. 

 

§          Lavid, Julia (2000a) "Linguistic and Computational Approaches to Information in Discourse: Theme, Focus, Given and Other Dangerous Things," Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses  Vol. 40, pp. 355-369. 

 

§          Lavid, Julia (1999a) "Discourse Functions of Conditionals in Multilingual Instructions: a Corpus Study on Ordering Variants," Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics Vol. 34, pp. 283-300. 

 

§          Lavid, J. (1997) "Textual Relations in discourse: towards a specification of multiple links between text segments," BELLS (Barcelona English Language and Literature Studies) Vol. 8, pp. 233-245. 

 

§          Lavid, J. (1996) "The Role of Global Structures and Local Relations in Text Generation: Contrastive Study," Revista de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural Vol. 18, pp. 63-86. 

 

§          Lavid, J. (1995) "Towards a text type typology: a framework for text analysis and generation," Revista de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural  Vol. 16, pp. 29-43. 

 

§          Lavid, J. (1994) "Uncovering the structure of discourse: recent trends in monologic text generation," Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense Vol. 2, pp. 139-155. 

 

§          Lavid, J. (1994-95) "Cognitive constraints on causal ordering strategies in English," Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada  Vol. 10, pp. 149-160. 

 

§          Lavid, J. (1992) "A Computational Approach to the Theory of  Discourse Structure:  Advances in Text Planning.," Atlantis Vol.   14 (1-2), pp. 81-105.

 

§          Borgenstierna, M. y Julia Lavid (1990) "La Lingüística Sistémica en la década de los ochenta," Anuari d' Anglès  Vol. XI-XII, pp. 25-39. 

 

§          Lavid, J. (1988) "La Metáfora como Error: Un Aspecto Cognitivo de la Teoría Semiótica de Walker Percy," Revista Española de Lingüística  Vol. 18 (2), pp. 347-356. 

 

§          Lavid, J. (1987) "Semiotic and Epistemology: some Aspects on Walker Percy's Theory of Language," Atlantis  9 (1-2) , pp. 137-142.
 


 

Book reviews

 

§          Lavid, Julia (2000b)  Review of  “Lexical Perspectives on Transitivity and Ergativity. Causative constructions in English” by Maarten Lemmens”. Functions of Language 7:1, 155 ff.

 

§          Lavid, Julia (1999b) "Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Discourse: Views from Sociology, Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and An Empirical Approach," Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense Vol. 7, pp. 281-296. 

 

§          Lavid, Julia (1994)  Book review of  “University Course in English Grammar” by Angela Downing and Philip Locke.  Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense Vol. 2, pp. 81-85.

 

 


 

Technical research reports for the European Commission

 

 

§          1993a. "Text type Typology: a functional framework for text analysis and generation". Deliverable R1.1.1.ESPRIT BR Project DANDELION (Discourse Functions and Discourse Representation: an Empirically and Linguistically Motivated Interdisciplinary-Oriented Approach to Natural Language Texts), EP6665. Universidad Complutense, Madrid, March 1993.

 

§          1993b . "Generic Structure Potential". Deliverable R1.1.1. ESPRIT BR  DANDELION, EP6665. Universidad Complutense, Madrid, September 1993.

 

§          1994a. "Thematic Development in Texts".  Deliverable R1.2.1. ES PRIT BR Project DANDELION, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, October 1994.

 

§          1994b. "Theme, Discourse Topic and Information Structuring". Deliverable R1.2.2b. ESPRIT BR Project DANDELION, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, October 1994.

 

§          1994c. with M. Taboada. 1994c. "Specification of Evaluation Criteria for Text Quality: Preliminary Report on some Relevant Issues" Technical Report INT-12, LRE Project GIST (Generating Instructional Texts) 062-09, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, September 1994.

 

§          1995. "Thematic progression and realization in multilingual administrative forms". Deliverable TST-3, LRE Project GIST (Generating Instructional Texts) 062-09, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, June 1995.

 


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