The Semantics of Grammar

• Prelim pages | pp. i–iv
• Acknowledgements | pp. v–vi
• Table of contents | pp. vii–x
• Introduction | pp. 1–22
• 1. Language and meaning
• 2. Grammatical semantics
• 3. ‘Autonomous syntax’: an illustration
• 4. The need for a semantic metalanguage
• 5. The need for an integrated linguistic description
• 6. The proposed semantic metalanguage
• 7. The idea of ‘ethno-grammar’
• 8. The philosophy of grammar
• 9. Universals of grammatical semantics
• 10. By their fruits shall ye know them
• Part 1: The semantics of syntax
• 1. The semantics of English complementation in a cross-linguistic perspective | pp. 23–168
• 1. Introduction
• 2. TO and ‘wanting’
• 3. TO and opinion
• 4. ING and time
• 5. TO, ING and aspectuals
• 6. TO and emotion
• 7. FOR TO versus TO
• 8. THAT and knowledge
• 9. The subjunctive: a cross-linguistic perspective
• 10. Conclusion
• Note
• 2. Ethno-syntax and the philosophy of grammar | pp. 169–236
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Bodily actions and events
• 3. The good/bad dichotomy
• 4. The unknown
• 5. Concluding remark
• Notes
• 3. The semantics of causative constructions in a cross-linguistic perspective | pp. 237–256
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Japanese
• 3. English
• 4. Hindi
• 5. ‘Indirect causation’ in English and in French
• 6. Italian
• 7. ‘Indirect causation’ in Russian
• 8. Causation in grammar: towards a semantic typology of grammatical systems
• 4. The Japanese ‘adversative’ passive in a typological context (Are grammatical categories vague or multiply polysemous?) | pp. 257–292
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Main-verb passives
• 3. Some cross-linguistic comparisons
• 4. Conclusion
• Summary of Japanese constructions
• 5. Why can you have a drink when you can't *have an eat? | pp. 293–358
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Periphrastic verbal construction with have defined
• 3. The over-all semantic invariant of the have a V construction
• 4. Subtypes of the have a V construction
• 5. Have a fall
• 6. Have a V versus take a V
• 7. Comparable constructions in other languages
• 8. Conclusion
• Notes
• Summary of contruction subtypes
• 6. The semantics of ‘internal dative’ in English | pp. 359–390
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Semantic constraints on the ‘internal dative’ construction
• 3. Semantic subtypes
• 4. Apparent exceptions
• 5. The semantic core
• 6. The semantic basis of transitivity
• 7. Three participants on the stage: but how many in the limelight?
• 8. A semantic common denominator
• 9. One semantic invariant or eight distinct subtypes?
• Summary of English internal dative constructions
• Part 2: The semantics of morphology
• 7. The meaning of a case: a study of the Polish dative | pp. 391–434
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Polish datives with external causes
• 3. Datives without external causes
• 4. Conclusion
• Summary of Polish dative constructions
• 8. The semantics of case marking | pp. 435–462
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Russian accusative case
• 3. The Russian ‘partitive’
• 4. The Russian genitive plural
• 5. The genitive marking of the accusative in Polish
• 6. The nominative plural in Polish
• 7. Conclusion
• 9. What's in a noun? (Or: how do nouns differ in meaning from adjectives?) | pp. 463–498
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Description versus categorization
• 3. The notion of ‘kind’
• 4. Semantic nouniness and syntactic nouniness
• 5. Core adjectival concepts
• 6. Where do nouns ‘come from’?
• 7. What are adjectives for?
• 8. Final illustration
• 9. Concluding remarks
• Definitions
• Notes
• 10. Oats and wheat: mass nouns, iconicity, and human categorization | pp. 499–560
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Preliminary discussion
• 3. The logic of names of fruits and vegetables in Russian
• 4. Water (names of homogeneous substances)
• 5. Chocolate and chocolates (solids with a double status)
• 6. Crockery (names of heterogeneous classes of objects)
• 7. Scissors (names of ‘dual objects’)
• 8. A grain of rice (substances with a minimal unit)
• 9. Hair, noodles and apples (‘singularia mostly’, ‘pluralia mostly’ and ‘edible objects’)
• 10. Oats (names of substances composed of particles and limited in quantity)
• 11. Guts and woods (names of body parts and places)
• 12. Leftovers (names of heterogenous groups of objects and/or ‘stuffs’)
• 13. Clothing versus clothes
• 14. Fruit versus vegetables
• 15. Conclusions
• Summary of class meanings
• Conclusion | pp. 561–562
• | pp. 563–584
• Subject and name index | pp. 585–596
• Index of lexical items | pp. 597–617

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