Two comparatives

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Selected books and articles by Ferenc Kiefer in semantics and pragmatics xix
6. Part I
7. Functional Grammar and the non-lexical expression of absence 3
8. A far from simple matter 21
9. Morphopragmatics of diminutives and augmentatives 43
10. “Love your enemies” 59
11. Part II
12. Two comparatives 75
13. Some puzzles of predicate possessives 91
14. Adjectives in context 119
15. Semantically speaking 147
16. Part III
17. On the lexical typology of modals, quantifiers, and connectives 173
18. Grelling’s paradox 187
19. Frege on mood and force 203
20. Leibnizian linguistics 229
21. Part IV
22. Naming conventions, focalization, and point of view in Balzac’s La Peau de chagrin 257
23. Discourse theory and the translation of clefts between English and German 273
24. Tectogrammatics in corpus tagging 293
25. Capturing differences between social activities in spoken language 301
26. An account of innuendo 321
27. Name index 337
28. Language index 341
29. Subject index 343