Some contrastive considerations about semantics in the communication process

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Foreword v
3. Table of contents ix
4. Editor’s introduction 1
5. Part I. Issues in contrastive linguistic theory
6. Toward contrastive sociolinguistics 11
7. Equivalence and congruence in transformational contrastive studies 19
8. The measurement of contrast in contrastive linguistics 29
9. ‘Theoretical contrastive studies’ 43
10. On cross-linguistic argumentation 57
11. Part II. Linguistic mmodels and contrastive studies of language
12. Some remarks on case grammars as bases for contrastive studies 71
13. Contrastive analysis 83
14. A brief re-appraisel of contrastive linguistics 119
15. Contrastive analysis and modern theory of language 127
16. Contrastive generative grammar 185
17. On some linguistic limitation of classical contrastive analysis 193
18. Deeper and deeper contrastive analysis 201
19. Part III. Phonology in contrastive analysis
20. The contrastive analysis of phonological systems 215
21. How do phonological rules compare? 225
22. Autosegmental phonology in contrastive linguistics 237
23. Contrastive phonostylistics 263
24. Part IV. Contrastive linguistics and the lexicon
25. The lexicon and contrastive language studies 275
26. A note on semantic representation of lexical items and on lexical gaps 293
27. Lexical entries for verbs in a contrastive english-german lexicon 309
28. Part V. Syntax and semantics in contrastive linguistics
29. Some contrastive considerations about semantics in the communication process 327
30. Existential sentences in english and polish 349
31. A contrastive description of deixis in danish and english 367
32. The role of sentence stress in the interpretation of coreferentiality in english and polish 379
33. Towards an erasure principle for german and english infinitive complements 391
34. Some remarks on ellipsis in english and polish 405
35. Index of authors 421
36. Index of terms and subjects 427