Perspectives on Semantics,Pragmatics,and Discourse -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface: Ferenc Kiefer 's work in semantics and pragmatics -- Introduction -- Selected books and articles by Ferenc Kiefer in semantics and pragmatics -- Functional Grammar and the non-lexical expression of absence -- A far from simple matter: Syntactic reflexes of syntax -pragmatics misalignments -- Morphopragmatics of diminutives and augmentatives: On the priority of pragmatics over semantics -- "Love our enemies" Affective constructions in two Daghestanian languages -- Two comparatives -- Some puzzles of predicate possessives -- Adjectives in context -- Semantically speaking -- On the lexical typolog of modals, quanti .ers,and connectives -- Grelling 's paradox: Its significance for linguistic theory -- Frege on mood and force -- Leibnizian linguistics -- Naming conventions, focalization, and point of view in Balzac 's La Peau de chagrin -- Discourse theory and the translation of clefts between English and German -- Tectogrammatics in corpus tagging -- Capturing differences between social activities in spoken language -- An account of innuendo -- Name index -- Language index -- Subject index -- PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.