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Product Identifiers
PublisherCsli Publications/Center for T.H.E. Study of Language & Information
ISBN-101575860066
ISBN-139781575860060
eBay Product ID (ePID)450061
Product Key Features
Number of Pages146 Pages
Publication NameLectures on Deixis
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1997
SubjectGrammar & Punctuation, General, Linguistics / General
TypeNot Available
Subject AreaRéférence, Language Arts & Disciplines
AuthorCharles Fillmore
SeriesLecture Notes Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight8.7 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN96-035248
Dewey Edition20
Series Volume Number65
Dewey Decimal415
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Table Of ContentIntroduction to the Reprinting of the Deixis Lectures May We Come In? Space Time Deixis I Coming and Going Deixis II Selected Bibliography
SynopsisThis volume presents the author's view of the scope of linguistic description, insofar as the field of linguistics touches on questions of the meanings of sentences. Fillmore takes the subject matter of linguistics, in its grammatical, semantic and pragmatic sub-divisions, to include the full catalogue of knowledge which the speakers of a language can be said to possess about the structure of the sentences in their language, and their knowledge about the appropriate use of these sentences. In the author's view, the special explanatory task of linguistics is to discover the principles which underlie such knowledge. Fillmore chooses to study the range of information which the speakers of a language possess about the sentences in their language by thoroughly examining one simple English sentence., This volume presents Charles Fillmore's view of the scope of linguistic description, insofar as the field of linguistics touches on questions of the meanings of sentences. Fillmore takes the subject matter of linguistics, in its grammatical, semantic, and pragmatic sub-divisions, to include the full catalog of knowledge that the speakers of a language can be said to possess about the structure of the sentences in their language, and their knowledge about the appropriate use of these sentences. The special explanatory task of linguistics, Fillmore argues, is to discover the principles that underlie such knowledge. He chooses to study the range of information which the speakers of a language possess about the sentences in their language by thoroughly examining one simple English sentence.