Grammar and Meaning: Essays in Honour of Sir John Lyons

Since the publication of his Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics (1968), Sir John Lyons became one of the most important and internationally renowned contributors to the study of linguistics. In a career which spanned several decades, he addressed himself to a broad range of issues of fundamental importance and is particularly noted for his seminal two-volume work, Semantics (1977). This volume, which is edited with an introduction by F. R. Palmer, gathers together a collection of essays by distinguished scholars on topics related to Lyons’s work. In a concluding essay, Lyons responds to the contributors and reflects on the intellectual underpinning of his own work.

• Sir John Lyons is a very famous name in linguistics • Collection of essays by distinguished scholars in the field • Sir John’s response outlines his own intellectual manifesto

List of contributors; Foreword F. R. Palmer; 1. Polysemous relations Adam Kilgarriff and Gerald Gazdar; 2. Fields, networks and vectors Adrienne Lehrer and Keith Lehrer; 3. Syntax, semantics, pragmatics Peter Matthews; 4. Natural-language interpretation as labelled natural deduction Ruth M. Kempson; 5. Three levels of meaning Stephen C. Levinson; 6. Does spoken language have sentences? Jim Miller; 7. Grammaticalisation and social structure: non-standard conjunction-formation in East Anglian English Peter Trudgill; 8. German Perfekt and Präteritum: speculations on meaning and interpretation Bernard Comrie; 9. The possessed John Anderson; 10. Complement clauses and complementation strategies R. M. W. Dixon; 11. Grammar and meaning John Lyons; John Lyons: publications; Index.