Perspectives on semantics, pragmatics, and discourse : a Festschrift for Ferenc Kiefer /

Professor Ferenc Kiefer of the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was instrumental in bringing early transformational grammar to Europe. His extensive work contributes substantially to making a connection between the grammatical theory and other areas of linguistics. The 17 e...

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Other Authors: Kiefer, Ferenc, Kenesei, István, Harnish, Robert M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2001.
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 90.
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Table of Contents:
  • Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • Preface: Ferenc Kiefer 's work in semantics and pragmatics
  • Introduction
  • Selected books and articles by Ferenc Kiefer in semantics and pragmatics
  • Functional Grammar and the non-lexical expression of absence
  • A far from simple matter: Syntactic reflexes of syntax -pragmatics misalignments
  • Morphopragmatics of diminutives and augmentatives: On the priority of pragmatics over semantics
  • "Love our enemies" Affective constructions in two Daghestanian languages.
  • Two comparatives
  • Some puzzles of predicate possessives
  • Adjectives in context
  • Semantically speaking
  • On the lexical typolog of modals, quanti .ers, and connectives
  • Grelling 's paradox: Its significance for linguistic theory
  • Frege on mood and force
  • Leibnizian linguistics
  • Naming conventions, focalization, and point of view in Balzac 's La Peau de chagrin
  • Discourse theory and the translation of clefts between English and German
  • Tectogrammatics in corpus tagging
  • Capturing differences between social activities in spoken language
  • An account of innuendo
  • Name index.
  • Language index
  • Subject index
  • PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.