Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics: In honor of Charles J. Fillmore

342 Pages·1996·35.5 MB·English

by  Masayoshi Shibatani, Sandra A. Thompson

ESSAYS IN SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS
Pragmatics & Beyond
New Series
Editors:
Jacob L. Mey
(Odense University)
Herman Parret
(Belgian National Science Foundation, Universities of Louvain and Antwerp)
Jef Verschueren
(Belgian National Science Foundation, University of Antwerp)
Editorial Address:
Linguistics (GER)
University of Antwerp (UIA)
Universiteitsplein l
B-2610 Wilrijk
Belgium
Editorial Board:
Norbert Dittmar {Free University of Berlin)
Bruce Fraser (Boston University)
John Heritage (University of California at Los Angeles)
David Holdcroft (University of Leeds)
Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni {University of Lyon 2)
Beatriz Lavandera (University of Buenos Aires)
Marina Sbisà (University of Trieste)
Emanuel A. Schegloff (University of California at Los Angeles)
Paul O. Takahara (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)
Sandra Thompson (University of California at Santa Barbara)
Daniel Vanderveken (University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières)
Teun A. van Dijk {University of Amsterdam)
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Masayoshi Shibatani and Sandra Thompson (eds)
Essays in Semantics and Pragmatics
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IN SEMANTICS
AND PRAGMATICS
IN HONOR OF CHARLES J. FILLMORE
Edited by
MASAYOSHI SHIBATANI
Kobe University
SANDRA THOMPSON
University of California at Santa Barbara
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Essays in semantics and pragmatics : in honor of Charles J. Fillmore / edited by Masayoshi
Shibatani, Sandra Thompson.
p. cm. -- (Pragmatics & beyond, ISSN 0922-842X ; new ser. 32)
Papers in honor of C. Fillmore's sixty-fifth birthday in 1994.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Semantics. 2. Pragmatics. 3. Grammar, Comparative and general. I. Fillmore, Charles J.
II. Shibatani, Masayoshi. III. Thompson, Sandra A. IV. Series.
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in honor of
CHARLES J. FILLMORE
(Photograph by Paul J. Atkins)
Preface
Masayoshi Shibatani and Sandra A. Thompson
When someone is as energetic and productive as Chuck Fillmore, it is easy
to miss opportunities to celebrate those occasions that mark one's life
cycles. Asian wisdom has it that one begins a new life cycle at the age of
sixty. Another tradition suggests that sixty-five is an age to celebrate;
accordingly, we decided to celebrate Chuck's sixty-fifth birthday in 1994.
1994 also marks the 20th anniversary of the Berkeley Linguistics Society,
together with which we held a joint celebration at the 20th BLS meeting
February 18-21, 1994.
Friends of Chuck's from all over the world have joined us in this project
of expressing our appreciation of Chuck for his contributions to the field of
linguistics and for his guidance, understanding, enthusiasm, friendship,
warmth, and concern for all of us as students, colleagues, and individuals.
Responses to our invitation to contribute to a festschrift for Chuck were so
enthusiastic that we had enough papers for two volumes. Like Chuck's own
scholarship, these tributes span a wide range of areas in linguistics. One
volume, containing mainly those papers dealing with grammatical construc­
tions, reflecting Chuck's more recent work on Construction Grammar, are
appearing as Grammatical Constructions: Their Form and Meaning from
Oxford University Press.
The present volume reflects the influence of Chuck's ground-breaking
work in the fields of semantics and pragmatics. The papers in this volume
pay tribute to Chuck's pioneering research into the deepest realms of the
nature of 'meaning'. An overview of this work is available elsewhere (see
especially the tribute volume of the Proceedings of the 20th Annual
Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1994). Suffice it to say here
that Chuck's output has reached into a remarkably wide variety of areas of
semantics and pragmatics, and that over the last 30 years he has played a
major role in showing us how to think about linguistic meaning.
The papers in this volume exuberantly celebrate this variety in the range
of approaches they represent. Taking semantics and pragmatics to define
viii PREFACE
a kind of continuum, the papers range from lexicography (Atkins) to
lexicology (Kiefer, Petruck), through the meanings of constructions
(Ackerman, Fujii, Gawron, Ohori), case (Lambrecht), metaphor (Lakoff),
and deixis (Östman), to the pragmatics of particles (Okamoto), perform-
ativity (Verschueren), kinship (Li), and face (Ervin-Tripp et al).
Putting these papers together has been a joy for us; it has been a
genuine pleasure to work with so many people who have been so enthusias­
tic about sharing in an enterprise designed to honor the influence that
Chuck Fillmore has had on the field of linguistics. We thank Jef
Verschueren for his involvement in this project from its inception and for
overseeing the production of this volume. We, authors and editors alike,
offer these papers in the recognition of the excitement of doing linguistics
that Chuck himself has shared with all of us and with the field at large.
Contents
Preface
Masayoshi Shibatani and Sandra Thompson vii
A predicate construction: Inversion in Polish
Farrell Ackerman 1
The role of the example in a frame semantics dictionary
B.T.S. Atkins 25
Shifting face from Asia to Europe
Susan Ervin-Tripp, Kei Nakamura, and Jiansheng Guo 43
Mental-space builders:
Observations from Japanese and English conditionals
Seiko Yamaguchi Fujii 73
Distance in construction grammar
Jean Mark Gawron 91
Lexical information and the temporal interpretation of discourse
Ferenc Kiefer 111
Reflections on metaphor and grammar
George Lakoff 133
The pragmatics of case: On the relationship between
semantic, grammatical, and pragmatic roles in English and French
Knud Lambrecht 145
Ancestor-descendant and cultural-linguistic relativity
Charles N. Li 191
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Remarks on suspended clauses:
A contribution to Japanese phraseology
Toshio Ohori 201
Pragmaticization of meaning in some sentence-final particles
in Japanese
Shigeko Okamoto 219
Recasting the deictic foundation, using physics and Finnish
Jan-Ola Östrnan 247
Frame semantics and the lexicon:
Nouns and verbs in the body frame
Miriam R.L. Petruck 279
The conceptual basis of performativity
Jef Verschueren 299
Index 323