Table of contents
Preface: Ferenc Kiefer’s work in semantics and pragmatics
Introduction
Selected books and articles by Ferenc Kiefer in semantics and pragmatics
Part I: Pragmatics in grammar1
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 your enemies”: Affective constructions in two Daghestanian languages
Part II: Semantic compositionality and pragmatics73
Some puzzles of predicate possessives
Part III: Logical structures and universals in semantics and pragmatics171
On the lexical typology of modals, quantifiers, and connectives
Grelling’s paradox: Its significance for linguistic theory
Part IV: Dialogue and thematic structure255
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
Name index
Language index
Subject index
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