Preface to the series
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Frank Brisard
  1. Theories of grammar
  2. Topics in pragmatics
  3. Naturalizing grammar
Constructional analysis
Kiki Nikiforidou
  1. Construction grammar and pragmatic analysis
  2. The pragmatics of grammar
  3. Extending the scope: Conventional pragmatics and conventional discourse
  4. Constructions in grammaticalization
  5. Summary and prospects
Control phenomena
Benjamin Lyngfelt
  1. Introduction
  2. Complement control - object clauses
    2.1  Control shift
    2.2  Other kinds of complement control
  3. Adjunct control
  4. Arbitrary control
  5. Less discussed control patterns
    5.1  Control in noun phrases and adjective phrases
    5.2  Indirect control
    5.3  Some other control relations
  6. Outlook
Definiteness
Ritva Laury
  1. Definite descriptions and reference
  2. Definiteness and identifiability
  3. Choice between types of definite expressions
  4. Definiteness and grammar
  5. Definiteness marking
  6. Development of definiteness
  7. Conclusion
Emergent grammar
Marja-Liisa Helasvuo
  1. Introduction
  2. Routinization and the emergence of grammar
  3. Emergent grammar within linguistics
Frame analysis
Branca Telles Ribeiro & Susan M. Hoyle
  1. Introduction
  2. What are frames?
  3. Frame and context in interaction
  4. Frame and footing
  5. Framing and nonverbal communication
  6. Framing in everyday talk
  7. Framing in play
  8. Framing and institutional discourse
    8.1  Framing and education
    8.2  Framing and medicine
  9. Perspectives for future research
Functional Discourse Grammar: pragmatic aspects
Mike Hannay & Kees Hengeveld
  1. Introduction
  2. Outline of the model
    2.1  FDG and verbal interaction
    2.2  The architecture of FDG
    2.3  Levels and layers
  3. The interpersonal level
  4. Discourse Acts and the relations between them
    4.1  Introduction
    4.2  Rhetorical functions
    4.3  Illocution
  5. Subacts and the relations between them
    5.1  Introduction
    5.2  Pragmatic functions
    5.3  Ascription and Reference
  6. Conclusion
Generative semantics
James D. McCawley
  1. The history of generative semantics
  2. Tenets of GS
    2.1  Against deep structure
    2.2  Derivational constraints
    2.3  Context and acceptability
    2.4  Pragmatics integrated in semantics
    2.5  The status of logic
    2.6  'Transformations'
    2.7  The 'base'
  3. Pragmatics in GS
Iconicity
Elzbieta Tabakowska
  1. Introduction
  2. History
  3. Iconicity we live by: The state of the art
    3.1  Iconicity as interpretation
    3.2  Principles oficonicity
    3.3  Types of iconicity
    3.4  Areas of research
  4. Perspectives
Information structure
Jeanette K. Gundel & Thorstein Fretheim
  1. Introduction
  2. What is information structure?
    2.1  Referential givenness/newness
    2.2  Relational givenness/newness -- Topic-focus structure
  3. How do languages express information structure?
    3.1  Information structure and sentence intonation
    3.2  Information structure and morphosyntax
  4. The grammar-pragmatics interface
Mental spaces
Todd Oakley
  1. Meanings are not "in" the words themselves
  2. What are mental spaces?
  3. Role and value in reference
  4. Other features of mental spaces theory
    4.1  Elements, relations, frames
    4.2  Space builders
  5. Spaces and the problems of reference, ambiguity, and presupposition
    5.1  Referential opacity
    5.2  Pragmatic ambiguity
    5.3  Presupposition and optimization
  6. Mental spaces and perspective in conditionals, counterfactuals, and deixis
    6.1  Conditionals and counterfactuals
    6.2  Deictic expressions
  7. Mental spaces and discourse management
  8. Conclusion
Modality
Ferenc giefer
  1. Introduction
  2. Modality in logic
  3. Necessity and possibility in linguistics
    3.1  Epistemic modality
    3.2  Deontic modality
    3.3  Some further types of modality
    3.4  The linguistic tradition
  4. Evidentials
  5. A possible synthesis
  6. Syntactic treatments of modality
  7. Modality and pragmatics
    7.1  Two readings of 'possible'
    7.2  The illocutionary meaning of modal verbs
    7.3  Deontic speech acts
    7.4  Ability and possibility
    7.5  Modality and grammaticalization
  8. Prospects
Negation
Matti Miestamo
  1. Scope of negation
  2. Markedness of negation
  3. The expression of negation in the world's languages
  4. Negative polarity items
  5. Negation and scalarity
  6. Metalinguistic negation
  7. Negative transport
  8. Negation in diachrony
  9. The acquisition of negation
Prague school
Petr Sgall
  1. Historical overview
  2. Main concepts and fields of research
  3. Prague functionalism and pragmatics
Role and Reference Grammar
Robert D. Van Valin, Jr.
  1. Introduction
  2. Historical background
  3. Central concepts
    3.1  Clause structure
    3.2  Semantic structure
    3.3  Focus structure
    3.4  Grammatical relations and linking
  4. Some implications of RRG
Semantics vs. pragmatics
Ken Turner
  1. Fregean beginnings
  2. From then until now
  3. Current manoeuvres: (Neo-(Post-))Gricean pragmatics
    3.1  Relevance Theory
    3.2  The Least Effort Hypothesis
    3.3  The Q-, I- and M-Principles Hypothesis
    3.4  Pragmatic intrusion
  4. Current manoeuvres: (Neo-(Post-))Kaplanean semantics
  5. Postscript: The logical basis of the semantics-pragmatics interface
  6. Conclusion
Tense and aspect
Robert L Binnick
  1. The semantics of markers of tense and/or aspect
    1.1  Tense
    1.2  Aspect
    1.3  Aktionsart
    1.4  Underspecification and the
     pragmatics of tense and aspect
  2. Discourse functions in MTA choice
    2.1  Genre
    2.2  Focalization
    2.3  Function
  3. Discourse coherence in the interpretation of MTAs
    3.1  Discourse coherence
    3.2  The linguistic level
    3.3  The intentional level
    3.4  The attentional level
Word order
Miriam Fried
  1. Syntactic typology
  2. Pragmatic functions of word order
  3. Cognitive correlates of theme/rheme notions
  4. Word order in grammatical descriptions and linguistic theory
  5. Diachronic perspective
  6. Concluding remarks
Index