Grammar and Meaning -Essays in Honour of Sir John Lyons

Author: F.R. Palmer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Usage & Grammar Guides, Linguistics, Semantics, Grammar, Syntax
Book Format: Hardcover

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. In a career which spanned several decades, he addressed himself to a broad range of issues of fundamental importance and is particularly noted for his seminal two-volume work, Semantics (1977). This volume, which is edited with an introduction by F. R. Palmer, gathers together a collection of essays by distinguished scholars on topics related to Lyons's work. In a concluding essay, Lyons responds to the contributors and reflects on the intellectual underpinning of his own work.

Table Of Contents
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 Prateritum: 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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