ESSAYS IN SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Table of contents -- A predicate construction: -- 1. Introduction -- 1. The Polish inversion construction2 -- 2. Mapping theories and constructions -- 3. Case marking and grammatical functions14 -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- The role of the example in a frame semantics dictionary -- 1. The dictionary entry -- 2. Lexically relevant facts in the 'risk' frame entry -- 3. The role of the dictionary example -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Shifting face from Asia to Europe1 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Asian face -- 3. Face in Brown and Levinson -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Mental-space builders: Observations from Japanese and English conditionals1 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. English mono-clausal conditional sentences and mental-space builders -- 3. Japanese devices for building mental spaces and their characteristics -- 4. Typological motivation for divergences -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Distance in construction grammar -- 1. General considerations -- 2. Distance expressions -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- Lexical information and the temporal interpretation of discourse -- 1. Perfectivity -- 2. Tense -- 3. Tense and aspectual class membership -- 4. Text linguistics -- 5. The internal structure of events -- 6. Lexical information and temporal structure -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Reflections on metaphor and grammar -- Metaphorical contradictions - An aside -- The general case -- Metaphorical experiences -- References -- The pragmatics of case: On the relationship between semantic, grammatical, and pragmatic rolesin English and French -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Topic and focus -- 3. The interdependence of role types in English -- 4. The interdependence of role types in French -- 5. Conclusion -- References.

Ancestor-descendant and cultural-linguistic relativity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ancestor-descendant relations in Chinese language and culture -- 3. The Whorfian hypothesis and language -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Remarks on suspended clauses: A contribution to Japanese phraseology1 -- References -- Pragmaticization of meaning in some sentence-final particles in Japanese -- 1. Introduction1 -- 2. Semantic-pragmatic properties of no, koto, to, and tte as SFPs -- 3. The status of no, koto, to, and tte as SFPs -- 4. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- Recasting the deictic foundation, using physics and Finnish -- 0. Preamble -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data: Demonstrative adverbs in Finnish -- 3. The traditional picture of deixis: Proximity and Distance -- 4. A theoretical challenge -- 5. A challenge from within language: Finnish 'Proximity' -- 5. Further implications -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Frame semantics and the lexicon: Nouns and verbs in the body frame -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Analysis of the data -- 3. Concluding remarks -- References -- The conceptual basis of performativity -- 1. Introduction. -- 2. The phenomenon -- 3. The problem -- 4. Searle's account of performativity -- 5. A descriptive model and its explanatory power -- 6. Back to 1903 -- References -- Index -- The series PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.