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Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics
In honor of Charles J. Fillmore
This volume reflects the influence of Chuck Fillmore’s ground-breaking work in the fields of semantics and pragmatics. The papers in the volume pay tribute to his pioneering research into the deepest realms of the nature of ‘meaning’.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 32] 1996. x, 332 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 8 April 2011
Published online on 8 April 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- PrefaceMasayoshi Shibatani and Sandra A. Thompson | p. vii
- A predicate construction: Inversion in PolishFarrell Ackerman | p. 1
- The role of the example in a frame semantics dictionaryB.T.S. Atkins | p. 25
- Shifting face from Asia to EuropeSusan M. Ervin-Tripp, Kei Nakamura and Jiansheng Guo | p. 43
- Mental-space builders: Observations from Japanese and English conditionalsSeiko Fujii | p. 73
- Distance in construction grammarJean Mark Gawron | p. 91
- Lexical information and the temporal interpretation of discourseFerenc Kiefer | p. 111
- Reflections on metaphor and grammarGeorge Lakoff | p. 133
- The pragmatics of case: On the relationship between semantic, grammatical, and pragmatic roles in English and FrenchKnud Lambrecht | p. 145
- Ancestor-descendant and cultural-linguistic relativityCharles N. Li | p. 191
- Remarks on suspended clauses: A contribution to Japanese phraseologyToshio Ohori | p. 201
- Pragmaticization of meaning in some sentence-final particles in JapaneseShigeko Okamoto | p. 219
- Recasting the Deictic foundation, using physics and FinnishJan-Ola Östman | p. 247
- Frame semantics and the lexicon: Nouns and verbs in the body frameMiriam R.L. Petruck | p. 279
- The conceptual basis of performativityJef Verschueren | p. 299
- Index | pp. 323–332
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