Lectures on Deixis (Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes)

Charles Fillmore

ISBN 10: 1575860066 / ISBN 13: 9781575860060

Published by CSLI, 1997

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Type: Book N.B. Small plain label to inside front cover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lectures on Deixis (Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes)
• Publisher: CSLI
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575860066
• ISBN 13: 9781575860060
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published
• Weight: 13 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • LINGUISTICS

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Synopsis

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.

Book Description

This volume takes the subject matter of linguistics to include the knowledge which speakers of a language possess about the structure of the sentences in their language and about the appropriate use of these sentences. Fillmore studies this information by thoroughly examining one simple English sentence.