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Form and Meaning in Language

Volume I, Papers on Semantic Roles

The early papers collected here trace a trajectory through the work and thinking of Charles Fillmore over his long and distinguished career—reflecting his desire to make sense of the workings of language in a way that keeps in mind questions of language form, language use, and the conventions linking form, meaning, and practice.

311 pages | 6 x 9 | © 2003

Lecture Notes

Language and Linguistics: Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics


Table of Contents

Preface
1. Toward a Modern Theory of Case
2. The Case for Case
3. The Grammar of Hitting and Breaking
4. Types of Lexical Information
5. The Case for Case Reopened
6. Topics in Lexical Semantics
7. On the Organization of Semantic Information in the Lexicon
References
Author Index
Subject Index
Word Index

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