Grammar and Meaning
Essays in Honour of Sir John Lyons

A collection of essays honouring the contribution of Sir John Lyons to the study of linguistics.

F. R. Palmer (Edited by)

9780521054775, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 January 2008

280 pages, 1 b/w illus.
22.8 x 15.1 x 1.6 cm, 0.43 kg

"I...recommend the book to anyone seriously interested in the relationships of semantics, pragmatics and grammar." E. Lou Hohulin, Notes on Linguistics

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Grammar, syntax & morphology [CFK]