Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse
A Festschrift for Ferenc Kiefer
Editors
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 essays in this book celebrate his career by continuing to explore inter-area research in linguistics: pragmatics in grammar (de Groot, van Riemsdijk, Dressler & Barbaresi, Comrie), semantic compositionality and pragmatics (Wunderlich, Partee, Borschev, Szabo, Bach), logical structures and universals in semantics and pragmatics (van der Auwera, Bultinck, Burton-Roberts, Harnish, Wierzbicka) dialogue and thematic structure (Jonasson, Doherty, Hajicova, Panevova, Sgall, Allwood, Fraser).
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 90] 2001. xxii, 352 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface: Ferenc Kiefer’s work in semantics and pragmatics | pp. vii–viii
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Introduction | pp. ix–xviii
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Selected books and articles by Ferenc Kiefer in semantics and pragmatics | pp. xix–xxi
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Part I: Pragmatics in grammar | p. 1
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Functional Grammar and the non-lexical expression of absenceCasper de Groot | pp. 3–20
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A far from simple matter: Syntactic reflexes of syntax-pragmatics misalignmentsHenk van Riemsdijk | pp. 21–41
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Morphopragmatics of diminutives and augmentatives: On the priority of pragmatics over semanticsWolfgang U. Dressler and Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi | pp. 43–58
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“Love your enemies”: Affective constructions in two Daghestanian languagesBernard Comrie | pp. 59–72
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Part II: Semantic compositionality and pragmatics | p. 73
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Two comparativesDieter Wunderlich | pp. 75–89
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Some puzzles of predicate possessivesBarbara H. Partee and Vladimir Borschev | pp. 91–117
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Adjectives in contextZoltan Gendler Szabo | pp. 119–146
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Semantically speakingKent Bach | pp. 147–170
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Part III: Logical structures and universals in semantics and pragmatics | p. 171
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On the lexical typology of modals, quantifiers, and connectivesJohan van der Auwera and Bert Bultinck | pp. 173–186
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Grelling’s paradox: Its significance for linguistic theoryNoel Burton-Roberts | pp. 187–201
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Frege on mood and forceRobert M. Harnish | pp. 203–228
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Leibnizian linguisticsAnna Wierzbicka | pp. 229–253
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Part IV: Dialogue and thematic structure | p. 255
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Naming conventions, focalization, and point of view in Balzac’s La Peau de chagrinKerstin Jonasson | pp. 257–271
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Discourse theory and the translation of clefts between English and GermanMonika Doherty | pp. 273–292
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Tectogrammatics in corpus taggingEva Hajičová, Jarmila Panevová and Petr Sgall | pp. 293–299
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Capturing differences between social activities in spoken languageJens Allwood | pp. 301–319
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An account of innuendoBruce Fraser | pp. 321–336
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Name index | pp. 337–339
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Language index | pp. 341–342
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Subject index | pp. 343–348
“More often than not, when colleagues and friends join forces to pay tribute to a scholar on his or her nth birthday, the product is just what you would expect: a Festschrift. The variety, orientation, and quality of the contributions to this Festschrift for Ferenc Kiefer, however, make it truly representative of an episode in the recent history of linguistics characterized by the search for a descriptive and explanatory balance between approaches to language as form, meaning, and use. The volume bears witness to the unique position which Kiefer himself occupies in this search.”
Jef Verschueren, University of Antwerp
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CLAPP, LENNY
2012. Indexical Color Predicates: Truth Conditional Semantics vs. Truth Conditional Pragmatics. Canadian Journal of Philosophy 42:2 ► pp. 71 ff. 
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General