Lectures on Deixis

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Lectures on Deixis is written by Charles J. Fillmore and published by Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1575860074 (ISBN 10) and 9781575860077 (ISBN 13).

This volume presents the author's view of the scope of linguistic description, insofar as the field of linguistics touches on questions of the meanings of sentences. Fillmore takes the subject matter of linguistics, in its grammatical, semantic and pragmatic sub-divisions, to include the full catalogue of knowledge which the speakers of a language can be said to possess about the structure of the sentences in their language, and their knowledge about the appropriate use of these sentences. In the author's view, the special explanatory task of linguistics is to discover the principles which underlie such knowledge. Fillmore chooses to study the range of information which the speakers of a language possess about the sentences in their language by thoroughly examining one simple English sentence.