Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse
A Festschrift for Ferenc Kiefer
Published on 9. July 2001
Book
Hardback
348 pages
978-1-58811-053-4 (ISBN)
Description
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).
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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 AntwerpMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
610 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58811-053-4 (9781588110534)
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Persons
Content
1. Preface: Ferenc Kiefer's work in semantics and pragmatics; 2. Introduction; 3. Selected books and articles by Ferenc Kiefer in semantics and pragmatics; 4. Part I: Pragmatics in grammar; 5. Functional Grammar and the non-lexical expression of absence (by Groot, Casper de); 6. A far from simple matter: Syntactic reflexes of syntax-pragmatics misalignments (by Riemsdijk, Henk van); 7. Morphopragmatics of diminutives and augmentatives: On the priority of pragmatics over semantics (by Dressler, Wolfgang U.); 8. "Love your enemies": Affective constructions in two Daghestanian languages (by Comrie, Bernard); 9. Part II: Semantic compositionality and pragmatics; 10. Two comparatives (by Wunderlich, Dieter); 11. Some puzzles of predicate possessives (by Partee, Barbara H.); 12. Adjectives in context (by Gendler Szabo, Zoltan); 13. Semantically speaking (by Bach, Kent); 14. Part III: Logical structures and universals in semantics and pragmatics; 15. On the lexical typology of modals, quantifiers, and connectives (by Auwera, Johan van der); 16. Grelling's paradox: Its significance for linguistic theory (by Burton-Roberts, Noel); 17. Frege on mood and force (by Harnish, Robert M.); 18. Leibnizian linguistics (by Wierzbicka, Anna); 19. Part IV: Dialogue and thematic structure; 20. Naming conventions, focalization, and point of view in Balzac's La Peau de chagrin (by Jonasson, Kerstin); 21. Discourse theory and the translation of clefts between English and German (by Doherty, Monika); 22. Tectogrammatics in corpus tagging (by Hajicova, Eva); 23. Capturing differences between social activities in spoken language (by Allwood, Jens); 24. An account of innuendo (by Fraser, Bruce); 25. Name index; 26. Language index; 27. Subject index