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Meaning Through Language Contrast
Volume 1
These volumes contain selected papers from the Second International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, in September 2000. They include papers on negation, temporality, modality, evidentiality, eventualities, grammar and conceptualization, grammaticalization, metaphor, cross-cultural pragmatics and speech acts and the semantics-pragmatics boundary. There are contributions by, amongst many others, Les Bruce, Ilinca Crainiceanu, Thorstein Fretheim, Saeko Fukushima, Ronald Geluykens, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, Klaus von Heusinger, K. M. Jaszczolt, Susumu Kubo, Akiko Kurosawa, Eva Lavric, Didier Maillat, Márta Maleczki, Steve Nicolle, Sergei Tatevosov, L. M. Tovena, Jacqueline Visconti and Krista Vogelberg.
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 99] 2003. xii, 388 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008
Published online on 21 October 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements | pp. ix–x
- Editorial prefaceKatarzyna M. Jaszczolt and Ken Turner | p. xi
- Negation
- Distributional restrictions on negative determinersLucia M. Tovena | pp. 3–28
- Towards a comprehensive view of Negative ConcordJoão Peres | pp. 29–42
- Temporality
- On temporal constructions involving counting from anchor points: Semantic and pragmatic issuesTelmo Móia | pp. 45–59
- On the semantics and pragmatics of situational anaphoric temporal locators in Portuguese and in EnglishAna Teresa Alves | pp. 61–74
- Remarks on the semantics of eventualities with measure phrases in English and RomanianIlinca Crainiceanu | pp. 75–100
- The present perfect in English and in CatalanHortènsia Curell | pp. 101–115
- A contrastive reading of temporal-aspectual morphemes in Swahili: The case of ‘-li’ and ‘-me’Frederick Kang’ethe Iraki | pp. 117–125
- Modality
- Semantic and pragmatic constraints on mood selectionRui Marques | pp. 129–146
- Dilemmas and excogitations: Further considerations on modality, clitics and discourseAlessandro Capone | pp. 147–173
- Evidentiality
- Inferred evidence: Language-specific properties and universal constraintsSergei Tatevosov | pp. 177–192
- Extension of meaning: Verbs of perception in English and LithuanianAurelija Usonienė | pp. 193–220
- Perspectives on eventualities
- Information structure, argument structure, and typological variationMárta Maleczki | pp. 223–244
- The network of demotion: Towards a unified account of passive constructionsAndrea Sansó | pp. 245–259
- Valence change and the function of intransitive verbs in English and JapaneseMayumi Masuko | pp. 261–275
- The transitive/intransitive construction of events in Japanese and English discoursePatricia Mayes | pp. 277–291
- Topics in grammar and conceptualization
- Towards a universal DRT model for the interpretation of directional PPs within a reference frameDidier Maillat | pp. 295–305
- The interaction of syntax and pragmatics: The case of Japanese ‘gapless’ relativesAkiko Kurosawa | pp. 307–334
- Constraint interaction at the semantics/pragmatics interface: The case of clitic doublingJavier Gutiérrez-Rexach | pp. 335–354
- Cross-language commutation tests and their application to an error-prone contrastive problem: Ger. einige, Fr. quelques, Sp. algunosEva Lavric | pp. 355–369
- Language index | pp. 371–372
- Name index | pp. 373–374
- Subject index | pp. 375–379
- Contents of Volume 2 | pp. 381–383
“[...] this book will be valuable for students and researchers engaged in the typological study of languages, both from diachronic and synchronic point of view, and also for those working on pragmatics.”
Sharbani Banerji, India, in Studies in Language Vol. 30:1 (2006)
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