Grammar and Meaning - Essays in Honour of Sir John Lyons

Zusammenfassung Since the publication of his Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics (1968)! Sir John Lyons became one of the most important and internationally renowned contributors to the study of linguistics. This volume gathers together a collection of essays by distinguished scholars on topics related to Sir John's own work. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributors; Foreword F. R. Palmer; 1. Polysemous relations Adam Kilgarriff and Gerald Gazdar; 2. Fields, networks and vectors Adrienne Lehrer and Keith Lehrer; 3. Syntax, semantics, pragmatics Peter Matthews; 4. Natural-language interpretation as labelled natural deduction Ruth M. Kempson; 5. Three levels of meaning Stephen C. Levinson; 6. Does spoken language have sentences? Jim Miller; 7. Grammaticalisation and social structure: non-standard conjunction-formation in East Anglian English Peter Trudgill; 8. German Perfekt and Präteritum: speculations on meaning and interpretation Bernard Comrie; 9. The possessed John Anderson; 10. Complement clauses and complementation strategies R. M. W. Dixon; 11. Grammar and meaning John Lyons; John Lyons: publications; Index.

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• Authors: F. R. Palmer, F. R. (University of Reading) Palmer, F.R. Palmer
• Assisted by: F. R. Palmer (Editor), Palmer F. R. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2008
• EAN: 9780521054775
• ISBN: 978-0-521-05477-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology