Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface to the series -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Theories of grammar -- 2. Topics in pragmatics -- 3. Naturalizing grammar -- References -- Constructional analysis -- 1. Construction grammar and pragmatic analysis -- 2. The pragmatics of grammar -- 3. Extending the scope: Conventional pragmatics and conventional discourse -- 4. Constructions in grammaticalization -- 5. Summary and prospects -- References -- Control phenomena -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Complement control - object clauses -- 2.1 Control shift -- 2.2 Other kinds of complement control -- 3. Adjunct control -- 4. Arbitrary control -- 5. Less discussed control patterns -- 5.1 Control in noun phrases and adjective phrases -- 5.2 Indirect control -- 5.3 Some other control relations -- 6. Outlook -- References -- Definiteness -- 1. Definite descriptions and reference -- 2. Definiteness and identifiability -- 3. Choice between types of definite expressions -- 4. Definiteness and grammar -- 5. Definiteness marking -- 6. Development of definiteness -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Emergent grammar -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Routinization and the emergence of grammar -- 3. Emergent grammar within linguistics -- References -- Frame analysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What are frames? -- 3. Frame and context in interaction -- 4. Frame and footing -- 5. Framing and nonverbal communication -- 6. Framing in everyday talk -- 7. Framing in play -- 8. Framing and institutional discourse -- 8.1 Framing and education -- 8.2 Framing and medicine -- 9. Perspectives for future research -- References -- Pragmatics in functional discourse grammar -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Outline of the model -- 2.1. FDG and verbal interaction -- 2.3 Levels and layers -- 2.2 The architecture of FDG.

3. The interpersonal level -- 4. Discourse Acts and the relations between them -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2 Rhetorical functions -- 4.3 Illocution -- 5. Subacts and the relations between them -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2 Pragmatic functions -- Focus -- Topic -- Contrast -- 5.3 Ascription and Reference -- 6. Conclusion -- Abbreviations used -- References -- Generative semantics -- 1. The history of generative semantics -- 2. Tenets of GS -- 2.1 Against deep structure -- 2.2 Derivational constraints -- 2.3 Context and acceptability -- 2.4 Pragmatics integrated in semantics -- 2.5 The status of logic -- 2.6 Transformations' -- 2.7 The 'base' -- 3. Pragmatics in GS -- References -- Iconicity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. History -- 3. Iconicity we live by: The state of the art -- 3.1. Iconicity as interpretation -- 3.2 Principles of iconicity -- 3.3 Types of iconicity -- 3.4 Areas of research -- 4. Perspectives -- References -- Information structure -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is information structure? -- 2.1 Referential givenness/newness -- 2.2 Relational givenness/newness - Topic-focus structure -- 3. How do languages express information structure? -- 3.1. Information structure and sentence intonation -- 3.2 Information structure and morphosyntax -- 4. The grammar-pragmatics interface -- References -- Mental spaces -- 1. Meanings are not "in" the words themselves -- 2. What are mental spaces? -- 3. Role and value in reference -- 4. Other features of mental spaces theory -- 4.1. Elements, relations, frames -- 4.2 Space builders -- 5. Spaces and the problems of reference, ambiguity, and presupposition -- 5.1 Referential opacity -- 5.2 Pragmatic ambiguity -- 5.3 Presupposition and optimization -- 6. Mental spaces and perspective in conditionals, counterfactuals, and deixis -- 6.1 Conditionals and counterfactuals -- 6.2 Deictic expressions.

7. Mental spaces and discourse management -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Modality -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Modality in logic -- 3. Necessity and possibility in linguistics -- 3.1 Epistemic modality -- 3.2 Deontic modality -- 3.3 Some further types of modality -- 3.4 The linguistic tradition -- 4. Evidentials -- 5. A possible synthesis -- 6. Syntactic treatments of modality -- 7. Modality and pragmatics -- 7.1 Two readings of 'possible' -- 7.2 The illocutionary meaning of modal verbs -- 7.3 Deontic speech acts -- 7.4 Ability and possibility -- 7.5 Modality and grammaticalization -- 8. Prospects -- a) Evidentials -- b) Subjective modality -- c) The development of modality -- d) Tense and modality -- e) The pragmatics of modality -- f) The acquisition of modality -- References -- Negation -- 1. Scope of negation -- 2. Markedness of negation -- 3. The expression of negation in the world's languages -- 4. Negative polarity items -- 5. Negation and scalarity -- 6. Metalinguistic negation -- 7. Negative transport -- 8. Negation in diachrony -- 9. The acquisition of negation -- References -- Prague school -- 1. Historical overview -- 2. Main concepts and fields of research -- 3. Prague functionalism and pragmatics -- References -- Role and reference grammar -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical background -- 3. Central concepts -- 3.1. Clause structure -- 3.2 Semantic structure -- 3.3 Focus structure -- 3.4 Grammatical relations and linking -- 4. Some implications of RRG -- References -- Semantics vs. pragmatics -- 1. Fregean beginnings -- 2. From then until now -- 3. Current manoeuvres: (Neo-(Post-))Gricean pragmatics -- 3.1 Relevance Theory -- 3.2 The Least Effort Hypothesis -- 3.3 The Q-, I- and M-Principles Hypothesis -- 3.4 Pragmatic intrusion -- 4. Current manoeuvres: (Neo-(Post-))Kaplanean semantics.

5. Postscript: The logical basis of the semantics-pragmatics interface -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Tense and aspect -- 1. The semantics of markers of tense and/or aspect -- 1.1. Tense -- 1.2 Aspect -- 1.3 Aktionsart -- 1.4 Underspecification and the pragmatics of tense and aspect -- 2. Discourse functions in MTA choice -- 2.1. Genre -- 2.2 Focalization -- 2.3 Function -- 3. Discourse coherence in the interpretation of MTAs -- 3.1. Discourse coherence -- 3.2 The linguistic level -- 3.3 The intentional level -- 3.4 The attentional level -- References -- Word order -- 1. Syntactic typology -- 2. Pragmatic functions of word order -- 3. Cognitive correlates of theme/rheme notions -- 4. Word order in grammatical descriptions and linguistic theory -- 5. Diachronic perspective -- 6. Concluding remarks -- References -- Index -- The series Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights.