Essays in semantics and pragmatics : in honor of Charles J. Fillmore / edited by Masayoshi Shibatani, Sandra Thompson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fillmore, Charles J.

Shibatani, Masayoshi.

Thompson, Sandra A.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 32.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics.

Pragmatics.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Semantics and pragmatics

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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'.

Contents:

ESSAYS IN SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Table of contents; A predicate construction:; The role of the example in a frame semantics dictionary; Shifting face from Asia to Europe1; Mental-space builders: Observations from Japanese and English conditionals1; Distance in construction grammar; Lexical information and the temporal interpretation of discourse; Reflections on metaphor and grammar; The pragmatics of case: On the relationship between semantic, grammatical, and pragmatic rolesin English and French

Ancestor-descendant and cultural-linguistic relativityRemarks on suspended clauses: A contribution to Japanese phraseology1; Pragmaticization of meaning in some sentence-final particles in Japanese; Recasting the deictic foundation, using physics and Finnish; Frame semantics and the lexicon: Nouns and verbs in the body frame; The conceptual basis of performativity; Index; The series PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES

Notes:

Papers in honor of C. Fillmore's sixty-fifth birthday in 1994.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613092601

90-272-8568-3

1-283-09260-3

OCLC:

713010233